Synopses & Reviews
In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866 is the first of six volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The collection documents the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause. Their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world as they mobilized thousands of women to fight for the right to a political voice.
Opening when Stanton was twenty-five and Anthony was twenty, and ending when Congress sent the Fourteenth Amendment to the states for ratification, this volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitment to political change. Readers will enjoy an extraordinary collection of letters, speeches, articles, and diaries that tells a story-both personal and public-about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage.
When all six volumes are complete, the Selected Papers of Stanton and Anthony will contain over 2,000 texts transcribed from their originals, the authenticity of each confirmed or explained, with notes to allow for intelligent reading. The papers will provide an invaluable resource for examining the formative years of women's political participation in the United States. No library or scholar of women's history should be without this original and important collection.
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"Ann Gordon's shrewd selections, meticulous editing, and deeply-researched annotations make these volumes an extraordinary gift to historians for generations to come."
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"Ann Gordon’s brilliance in unearthing and preserving the Stanton-Anthony heritage will inform feminist scholarship for generations. These volumes are our history: factual, fair, and like the women themselves, often very funny. Read them with pride."
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"A handful of women ignited and fueled one of the world's most significant, ongoing revolutions, and thanks to Dr. Gordon's insightful and rigorous scholarship, these women come alive to challenge us today."
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"This six-volume collection is a valuable addition not only to our knowledge of Stanton and Anthony, but of nineteenth-century women’s activism as well."
Synopsis
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Volumes I - VI are now available for purchase as a six volume set. Together the volumes in this set offer an extraordinary collection that tells a story-both personal and public, about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage and provides the most extensive in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of two of America’s most important social and political reformers. Readers will enjoy over 2,000 letters, speeches, articles, and diaries excerpts transcribed from their originals, the authenticity of each confirmed or explained, with notes to allow for intelligent reading.
Volume I opens when Stanton was twenty-five and Anthony was twenty. Volume 6 concludes when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause and their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world.
Synopsis
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is now available for purchase as a six folume set. Together the volumes in this set offer and extensive and in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.
About the Author
Ann D. Gordon is a research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University. She is the editor of this six-volume series. She is the recipient of the 2012 Silent Sentinel Award presented by the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association.
Table of Contents
v. 1. In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866