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Overview
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897, is one of the great American autobiographies. There is really no other American woman’s autobiography in the nineteenth century that comes near it in relevance, excellence, and historical significance.
In 1848, thirty-three-year-old Stanton and four others organized the first major women’s rights meeting in American history. Together with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the cause, she led the campaign for women’s legal rights, most prominently woman suffrage, for the rest of the century. In those years, Stanton was the movement’s spokeswoman, theorist, and its visionary. In addition to her suffrage activism, she was a pioneering advocate of women’s reproductive freedom, and a ceaseless critic of religious misogyny. As the mother of seven, she also had pronounced opinions on women’s domestic responsibilities, especially on raising children.
In Eighty Years and More, Stanton reminisces about dramatic moments in the history of woman suffrage, about her personal challenges and triumphs, and about the women and men she met in her travels around the United States and abroad.
Stanton’s writing retains its vigor, intelligence, and wit. Much of what she had to say about women, their lives, their frustrations, their aspirations and their possibilities, remains relevant and moving today.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781544613567 |
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| Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
| Publication date: | 03/16/2017 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Ann D. Gordon, is Research Professor Emerita of history at Rutgers University and editor of the six-volume Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. She has written numerous articles on women’s history, biography, and historical editing and also compiled a collection of essays by scholars of black history, African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965. In advance of the Nineteenth Amendment centennial, she served as a historical advisor to the National Archives for its exhibit “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote.”
Table of Contents
Chapter I Childhood 1
Chapter II School Days 20
Chapter III Girlhood 35
Chapter IV Life at Peterboro 51
Chapter V Our Wedding Journey 71
Chapter VI Homeward Bound 92
Chapter VII Motherhood 108
Chapter VIII Boston and Chelsea 127
Chapter IX The First Woman's Rights Convention 143
Chapter X Susan B. Anthony 155
Chapter XI Susan B. Anthony (Continued) 169
Chapter XII My First Speech Before a Legislature 186
Chapter XIII Reforms and Mobs 200
Chapter XIV Views on Marriage and Divorce 215
Chapter XV Women as Patriots 234
Chapter XVI Pioneer Life in Kansas-Our Newspaper "The Revolution," 245
Chapter XVII Lyceums and Lecturers 259
Chapter XVIII Westward Ho! 283
Chapter XIX The Spirit of '76 307
Chapter XX Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage," 322
Chapter XXI In the South of France 337
Chapter XXII Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain 351
Chapter XXTII Woman and Theology 377
Chapter XXIV England and France Revisited 394
Chapter XXV The International Council of Women 412
Chapter XXVI My Last Visit to England 422
Chapter XXVII Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832-The Woman's Bible 439
Chapter XXVIII My Eightieth Birthday 458
Index of Names 489