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Out of Our Father's House
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'Out of Our Father's House' is a 1978 episode of PBS's 'Great Performances' series. This episode was first broadcast on 2 August 1978 on PBS. The movie is a televised play of the work by Eve Merriam. The play is about six real-life leaders of the women's suffrage movement.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120130/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/290634/Out-of-Our-Fathers-House/overview The New York Times Movies] The TV movie stars Jackie Burroughs as astronomer Maria Mitchell, Carol Kane as Eliza Southgate, Dianne Wiest as author Elizabeth Gertrude Stern, Maureen Anderman as Doctor Anna Howard Shaw, Kaiulani Lee as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Jan Miner as "Mother" Mary Jones (full name Mary Harris Jones).
The original play by the same name was written by Eve Merriam, and was based on her book "Growing Up Female in America".
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