Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Standard Name: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Frances E. W. Harper
Her work for women's rights and racial equality in the United States led to relationships with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Harriet Tubman , Frederick Douglass , Susan B. Anthony , and Lucretia Mott .
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy. Wayne State University Press, 1994.
116-17, 126, 225
Friends, Associates Margaret Fuller
Through her Conversations MF both benefited and formed friendships with a number of remarkable women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Lydia Maria Child , and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody .
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
16
She also encouraged the literary ambitions...
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pankhurst
Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris , Annie Besant , Keir Hardie , Tom Mann , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
24
Intertextuality and Influence Adrienne Rich
In Culture and Anarchy (titled after the famous essay collection by Matthew Arnold , 1869 ), Rich mixes her own poetry with the words of nineteenth-century Anglo-American women writers Jane Addams , Susan B. Anthony
Performance of text Sojourner Truth
At the national conference for women's rights in Worcester, Massachusetts (where Lucy Stone was present, though not Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony , ST gave one of the first of her well-known public addresses.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. W. W. Norton, 1996.
115
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3
politics Amelia Opie
The Anti-Slavery Convention was the culmination of years of abolitionist work for AO , work which brought her into contact with such figures as the lawyer and politician Henry, Lord Brougham , in England and...
politics Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Considered to be conservative as a suffragist, though reformist in her views, ABB believed that religion had the potential to empower women and promote equality if the church allowed them into leadership roles. Radicals such...
politics Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS was drawn into debates about abolition during the 1830s but failed to become radicalized or to see the feminist implications perceived by other abolitionists such as the Grimkésisters , Elizabeth Cady Stanton ...
politics Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS remained fairly indifferent to women's rights for a long time. As late as 1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted her to publish a story on the issue, HBS commented that...
politics Marion Reid
In June 1840, MR attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson , Amelia Opie , and Lady Byron . She was the only Scotswoman present.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xii
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
MR was shocked...
Textual Features Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ accords Mary the gifts of poetess and prophetess.
qtd. in
Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press, 1993.
117
Her interpretation of the Madonna—whom she considers a new type of womanly perfection,
qtd. in
Adams, Kimberly VanEsveld. “The Madonna and Anna Jameson”. Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, 1998, pp. 59-82.
59
both fully human and fully divine, and Christ's near-equal—for female empowerment...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
Here EF relates the story of her lecture tours in the USA, with her meetings with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Lucretia Mott , and others.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
29, 199
Her survey of the situation of American...
Textual Production Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS used her earlier travels in Europe as material for a travel guide for Americans. She had met Germaine de Staël and Elizabeth Gaskell while in Europe, and had voraciously read everything by George Sand
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Forster
For subjects of particular chapters she chooses Caroline Norton , Elizabeth Blackwell , Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Margaret Sanger , and Emma Goldman , selected this time not for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
This time MF 's approach to the issue of women's relations with the Church draws less on recent history and more on personal experience and her own thinking. It takes two to create a stigma...

Timeline

June 1840: American women were refused entry as delegates...

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June 1840

American women were refused entry as delegates to the first World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
1
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
210
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
31
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.
3
Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
199
Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
199-200
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

May 1863: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...

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May 1863

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the Women's Loyal National League to oppose slavery in the USA.
Sherr, Lynn. Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her Own Words. Times Books, 1995.
34
Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. New York University Press, 1988.
152-4
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
277
The name of the League is inconsistently given in sources. Trager lists...

June 1866: The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...

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June 1866

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gave male Negroes the vote, was drafted so as to deny the vote to women.
James, Joseph B. The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment. University of Illinois Press, 1965.
130, 203
Faber, Doris. Petticoat Politics: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Lothrip, Lee and Shepard, 1967.
70-2

After February 1869: Two years after its launch, the American...

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After February 1869

Two years after its launch, the American Equal Rights Association voted to support the US Congress 's proposed fifteenth amendment (which enabled male suffrage for Black people without waiting for white women to attain the vote).
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3

Between 1881 and 1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,...

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Between 1881 and 1886

Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony , and Matilda Joslyn Gage published the first three volumes of their History of Woman Suffrage. They dedicated the first volume to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3-4
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla...

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1886

Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla Bright McLaren and Anna Maria Priestman to help organise a British delegation to an international conference of suffragists in Washington.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
74

Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...

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Late July 1889

The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
215-254

1895: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible...

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1895

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's The Woman's Bible was published in New York.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
226
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Gordon, Linda. “A Passion for Equality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxiii
, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2006, pp. 3-4.
3-4
The first-edition copy at the University of Alberta was the one presented by the author to Susan B. Anthony .

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