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Narcissa Cox Vanderlip (1879–1966) was a prominent American suffragist. Born Mabel Narcissa Cox, she attended the University of Chicago but left before graduating to marry Frank A. Vanderlip in 1903. The couple settled at Beechwood, New York, where they founded the Scarborough School, the first Montessori school in the U.S., and later had six children.

Narcissa was a leading suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters, chairing it from 1919 to 1923. She also recruited Eleanor Roosevelt for the League's board. In 1929, she became president of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, a role she held for three decades.

In 1934, Edward Bernays sought Narcissa's help to promote green as a fashionable color for Lucky Strike cigarette packages. She hosted the Green Ball at the Waldorf Astoria, attended by society women in green dresses, making green a trend.