Henry brewster stanton biography of nancy
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Born on January 20, 1856, in Seneca Falls, New York, Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was the second youngest of seven children of abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton and woman suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her mother’s world of women’s rights activism marked Harriot’s childhood memories. Elizabeth Stanton occasionally recruited her children to assist her, and Harriot recalled in later life her mother’s “ready wit, her delicious humor” and her ability to transform any task into an adventure. “Our readiness to carry through the stint of daily labor,” she recalled, “would have soon waned if it had not been for my mother’s great gift as a conversationalist . . . . Her interesting stories, her amusing anecdotes made us forget the dullness of our job . . . . My mother was not beautiful but her blue eyes danced with life, with sympathy and understanding. She drew you to her service because of her abounding love.”
Harriot vividly remembered meeting such figures as Sojourner Trut
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Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
By Elizabeth CadyStanton, 1815-1902.
New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Copyright 1897.
A Celebration of Women Writers
gender, ethnicity, class
EIGHTY YEARS AND MORE
REMINISCENCES 1815-1897
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
"Social science affirms that woman's place in kultur marks the level of civilization."
T. Fisher Unwin
1898
PREFACE.
THE interest my family and friends have always manifested in the narration of my early and varied experiences, and their earnest desire to have them in permanent struktur for the amusement of another generation, moved me to publish this volume. I am fully aware that its contents have no especial artistic merit, being composed partly of extracts from my diary, a few hasty sketches of my travels and people inom have met, and of my opinions on many social questions.
The story of my private life as the wife of an earnest reformer, as an enthusiastic housekeeper, proud of my skill in every depar
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American suffragist (1815–1902)
For other uses, see Elizabeth Stanton (disambiguation).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
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Stanton, c. 1880, age 65 | |
| Born | Elizabeth Smith Cady (1815-11-12)November 12, 1815 Johnstown, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 26, 1902(1902-10-26) (aged 86) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, U.S. |
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| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 7, including Theodore and Harriot |
| Parent(s) | Daniel Cady Margaret Livingston |
| Relatives | James Livingston (grandfather) Gerrit Smith (cousin) Elizabeth Smith Miller (cousin) Nora Stanton Barney (granddaughter) |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind