In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal ...
Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author's words, an "unabashedly 'great woman' biography."
Stanton participated in transcendentalist writer Margaret Fuller's small-group conversations in Boston in 1843, when Fuller wrote the “The Great Lawsuit” and its expanded book form, Woman in the Nineteenth Century.63 Fuller argued that ...
As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, “Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.” With the publication of Volume VI, ...
Taken together, these essays and documents reveal the different facets, enduring insights, and fascinating contradictions of the work of one of the great thinkers of the feminist tradition.
In its third edition this accessible and engaging collection of the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony provides a critical overview of the lives, ideas and activism of two founders of the American feminist tradition.
The documents delineate the progress of American reform politics from Stanton's speech at Seneca Falls in 1848 into the early twentieth century, when a conflict developed between the two feminists...
... the West Coast as " Mrs. Pitts " to teach school in 1865 , and she married August K. Stevens before January 1870. ... Hannah Cutler arrived in California in October 1870 to visit a married daughter , lecture , and organize a state ...
Weaving together events, quotations, personalities and commentary, a page-turning narrative portrays the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a friendship that changed history as they challenged entrenched beliefs ...
She became dean of Swarthmore College in 1886. ( NCAB , 6 : 365 ; Franklin Ellis , History of Columbia County , New York [ Philadelphia , !^78 ] , 347 ; Emily Cooper Johnson , Dean Bond of Swarthmore , A Quaker Humanist [ Philadelphia ...