Colorado, Utah and Idaho gained woman suffrage between and There is stayed until well after Stanton and Anthony's deaths. Nothing seemed to stop Stanton.
In the s she traveled across the United States giving speeches. In "Our Girls" her most frequent speech, she urged girls to get an education that would develop them as persons and provide an income if needed; both her daughters completed college.
In she helped organize a protest at the nation's th birthday celebration in Philadelphia. In the s, she, Susan B. In , leaders of the U. Stanton sat front and center. Her autobiography, Eighty Years and More, appeared in Her final speech before Congress, The Solitude of Self, delivered in , echoed themes in "Our Girls," claiming that as no other person could face death for another, none could decide for them how to educate themselves.
Along the way, Stanton advocated for Laura Fair, accused of murdering a man with whom she was having an affair. She allied the movement and her resources to Victoria Woodhull, who claimed the right to love as she pleased without regard to marriage laws.
She supported Elizabeth Tilton, a supposed victim of the sexual advances of clergyman Henry Ward Beecher. She broke with Frederick Douglass over the vote in the s and congratulated him on his marriage to Helen Pitts of Honeoye, NY in , when others, including family, criticized their interracial marriage.
Stanton was a complicated personality who lived a long life, saw many changes and created some of them. Her writings were prolific. She often contradicted herself as she and the world around her progressed and regressed for the better part of a century.
Read Stanton's favorite public speech, Solitude of Self. Sixty-eight women and 32 men signed the document—including prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass —but many withdrew their support later when it came under public scrutiny. In , she met feminist Quaker and social reformer Susan B. Many of their abolitionist friends disagreed with their position, however, and felt that suffrage rights for Black men was top priority. In the late s, Stanton began to advocate measures that women could take to avoid becoming pregnant.
Her support for more liberal divorce laws, reproductive self-determination and greater sexual freedom for women made Stanton a somewhat marginalized voice among women reformers. A rift soon developed within the suffrage movement. She published her autobiography, Eighty Years and More , in Stanton died on October 26, from heart failure. Address to the Legislature of New York, National Park Service. Declaration of Sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Middle East. North America. International Relations Religion Education Sports. Search form Search. Connecting History. Hot off the Press. History Talk. Printer Friendly Version. Elizabeth Cady Stanton seated with Susan B. Anthony standing , circa As a single woman Anthony was free to travel and earn her living from her reform work, providing Stanton with more active ways to educate and agitate for her reforms.
Anthony, it turned out, was also more skillful than Stanton at organizing people to carry out their shared ideas. After the Civil War, when Stanton felt free to travel, she became one of the best-known women in the United States.
With Anthony as publisher she and Parker Pillsbury edited —70 the Revolution , a militant feminist magazine. Elizabeth Stanton was a brilliant orator and an able journalist, and as a writer and lecturer she strove for legal, political, and industrial equality of women and for liberal divorce laws. Thriving on controversy, she championed notorious victims of the double standard like Abby McFarland Richardson and Laura Fair.
While she entertained her audiences, she challenged them to examine how inequality had distorted American society and consider how equality might be achieved. Anthony first met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A few years later, Stanton wrote in a journal:. These gentlemen were my guests. Walking home after the adjournment, we met Mrs. Bloomer and Miss Anthony, on the corner of the street, waiting to greet us.
There she stood, with her good earnest face and genial smile, dressed in gray delaine, hat and all the same color, relieved with pale blue ribbons, the perfection of neatness and sobriety. I liked her thoroughly, and why I did not at once invite her home with me to dinner I do not know.
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