Juliet Rublee

Juliet Rublee (Barrett)

• Juliet Barrett Rublee's Wikipedia Page
• Women Film Pioneers, Juliet Barrett Rublee
• Juliet Barrett Rublee Papers, Dartmouth College
• Margaret Sanger to Juliet Barrett Rublee
• Find A Grave Memorial ID # 96710207

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Biographical Note

Birth control advocate; Pacifist; Feminist. Juliet Barrett was born in Chicago in 1875. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut; she married George Rublee, lawyer and political advisor to Dwight Morrow and later a Wilson appointee to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 1899. Active in modern dance early in the 20th century, Juliet Rublee became involved in the birth control movement in 1916 after Margaret Sanger's arrest. Thereafter she was Sanger's "closest friend and ally," giving not only of her time, but also her personal fortune. She was a strong pacifist at the outbreak of World War I.

During the 1920s she branched out even more--in 1925 she led a diving expedition for treasure in the Mediterranean, and at the end of the decade she produced a film on the Mexican Revolution. She spent most of her later years in her Cornish, New Hampshire home. Juliet Rublee died in 1966.

According to Margaret Sanger's biographer, Ellen Chesler, "More than any other figure in the country's social establishment, [Juliet Rublee] would be responsible for subsequent changes in the orientation of the birth control movement." (Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Anchor Books, 1993).