Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (b. Hanson) (1825-1911) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Malden, Massachusetts. She worked as a bobbin doffer at the Tremont Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later became a poet and author. Some of her notable written works include Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement (1881) and her autobiography, Loom and Spindle: or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898). In 1848, she married William Stevens Robinson, a newspaper journalist, politician, and active member of the Free Soil Party, which focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States. The couple moved to Malden in 1858. In addition to joining her husband in his anti-slavery and reform activities, Robinson played a significant role in the history of women's rights. In 1868, she joined the American Woman's Suffrage Organization. She was elected president of the Middlesex County Woman Suffrage Association in 1875. Along with her eldest daughter, Harriet Lucy Robinson Shattuck, Robinson founded a local women's club in Malden in 1878, organized the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts in 1882, and also helped organize the New England Women's Club. Robinson was a Daughter of the American Revolution and a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robinson wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1887, inquiring whether, after learning Eddy possessed Volume 1 of History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, she would like to purchase Volume 2 and 3 or donate the copy she had to a local school or library. Eddy later noted on the letter that she had donated $5.00 ($160.37 in 2023) to Anthony's cause and, as she understood, hadn't received Volume 1, but preferred to help in this way, as she didn't have time to read it.

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