a conviction.' Other activities Adams was a proponent of the Esperanto language. In 1913, she invented two popular suffrage games that were sold in Virginia and Maryland; the funds raised were used to support her suffrage work. After passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920, she looked for new challenges. She passed the bar exam in 1921 and became the second woman to practice law in Norfolk. She was also involved in politics, working on the campaign of Sarah Lee Fain and running unsuccessfully for city council. She died of myocardial failure in 1957 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk. References External links Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Pauline Adams American suffragists 1874 births 1957 deaths People from Dublin (city) Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) People from Brunswick County, North Carolina Politicians from Norfolk, Virginia Activists from North Carolina Activists from Virginia American Esperantists Virginia lawyers 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American women lawyers