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Stanton
1898
The Seneca Falls Convention, the Anthony partnership, and eighty years of American reform, told by the woman who wrote the movement's founding document.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1898
Stanton's 1898 memoir is the origin story of American women's rights told by the person who wrote its founding text, the Declaration of Sentiments, and who spent the next half-century in the fight that followed. It's also an unusually candid record of the coalition politics of reform movements — the alliance with abolitionism, the rupture over the Fifteenth Amendment, the friction and loyalty of the Stanton-Anthony partnership — that reads as much like a case study in movement-building as a personal memoir. Read for the founding moment itself, and for how unresolved, contested, and internally divided that founding was even among its own architects.
28 chapters · 132,483 words · ~10 hr read
Contents
Early Life
Childhood in her father's household and law office, schooling, and the girlhood experiences Stanton later traced her feminism to.
Marriage and Motherhood
Her wedding journey to London (and the abolitionist convention that first introduced her to organized reform), the early years of marriage, and raising a large family.
Seneca Falls and the Anthony Partnership
The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments, the start of Stanton's decades-long collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, and the early campaigns of the movement.
War, Reconstruction, and Rupture
The Civil War years, Kansas and the newspaper The Revolution, the lecture circuit, and the 1869 break with former abolitionist allies over the Fifteenth Amendment.
Later Years
Writing The History of Woman Suffrage, travel and reform work in Europe, The Woman's Bible controversy, and Stanton's eightieth birthday celebration.