Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
By Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Classic work by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Table of Contents
II. SCHOOL DAYS III. GIRLHOOD IV. LIFE AT PETERBORO V. OUR WEDDING JOURNEY VI. HOMEWARD BOUND VII. MOTHERHOOD VIII. BOSTON AND CHELSEA IX. THE FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION X. SU...
CHILDHOOD. The psychical growth of a child is not influenced by days and years, but by the impressions passing events make on its mind. What may prove a sudden awakening to one, g...
SCHOOL DAYS. When I was eleven years old, two events occurred which changed considerably the current of my life. My only brother, who had just graduated from Union College, came h...
GIRLHOOD. Mrs. Willard's Seminary at Troy was the fashionable school in my girlhood, and in the winter of 1830, with upward of a hundred other girls, I found myself an active part...
LIFE AT PETERBORO. The year, with us, was never considered complete without a visit to Peterboro, N.Y., the home of Gerrit Smith. Though he was a reformer and was very radical in ...
OUR WEDDING JOURNEY. My engagement was a season of doubt and conflict--doubt as to the wisdom of changing a girlhood of freedom and enjoyment for I knew not what, and conflict bec...
HOMEWARD BOUND. After taking a view of the wonders and surroundings of London we spent a month in Paris. Fifty years ago there was a greater difference in the general appearance o...
MOTHERHOOD. We found my sister Harriet in a new home in Clinton Place (Eighth Street), New York city, then considered so far up town that Mr. Eaton's friends were continually aski...
BOSTON AND CHELSEA. In the autumn of 1843 my husband was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Boston with Mr. Bowles, brother-in-law of the late General John A...
THE FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION. In the spring of 1847 we moved to Seneca Falls. Here we spent sixteen years of our married life, and here our other children--two sons and two...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY. The reports of the conventions held in Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., in 1848, attracted the attention of one destined to take a most important part in the ne...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY--_Continued_. It was in 1852 that anti-slavery, through the eloquent lips of such men as George Thompson, Phillips, and Garrison, first proclaimed to Miss Anthony...
MY FIRST SPEECH BEFORE A LEGISLATURE. Women had been willing so long to hold a subordinate position, both in private and public affairs, that a gradually growing feeling of rebell...
REFORMS AND MOBS. There was one bright woman among the many in our Seneca Falls literary circle to whom I would give more than a passing notice--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who represent...
VIEWS ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. The widespread discussion we are having, just now, on the subject of marriage and divorce, reminds me of an equally exciting one in 1860. A very lib...
WOMEN AS PATRIOTS. On April 15, 1861, the President of the United States called out seventy-five thousand militia, and summoned Congress to meet July 4, when four hundred thousand...
PIONEER LIFE IN KANSAS--OUR NEWSPAPER, "THE REVOLUTION." In 1867 the proposition to extend the suffrage to women and to colored men was submitted to the people of the State of Kan...
LYCEUMS AND LECTURERS. The Lyceum Bureau was, at one time, a great feature in American life. The three leading bureaus were in Boston, New York, and Chicago. The managers, map in ...
WESTWARD HO! In the month of June, 1871, Miss Anthony and I went to California, holding suffrage meetings in many of the chief cities from New York to San Francisco, where we arri...
majority, submitted to a vote of the electors an amendment of the Constitution, in favor of striking out the word "male" and thus securing civil and political rights to the women o...
THE SPIRIT OF '76. The year 1876 was one of intense excitement and laborious activity throughout the country. The anticipation of the centennial birthday of the Republic, to be ce...
WRITING "THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE." The four years following the Centennial were busy, happy ones, of varied interests and employments, public and private. Sons and daughters...
IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. Having worked diligently through nearly two years on the second volume of "The History of Woman Suffrage," I looked forward with pleasure to a rest, in the...
REFORMS AND REFORMERS IN GREAT BRITAIN. Reaching London in the fogs and mists of November, 1882, the first person I met, after a separation of many years, was our revered and belo...
WOMAN AND THEOLOGY. Returning from Europe in the autumn of 1883, after visiting a large circle of relatives and friends, I spent six weeks with my cousin, Elizabeth Smith Miller, ...
ENGLAND AND FRANCE REVISITED. On arriving at Basingstoke we found awaiting us cordial letters of welcome from Miss Biggs, Miss Priestman, Mrs. Peter Taylor, Mrs. Priscilla McLaren...
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Pursuant to the idea of the feasibility and need of an International Council of Women, mentioned in a preceding chapter, it was decided to cele...
MY LAST VISIT TO ENGLAND. As soon as we got our carriage put together Hattie and I drove out every day, as the roads in England are in fine condition all the year round. We had lo...
SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLASS OF 1832--THE WOMAN'S BIBLE. I returned from Geneva to New York city in time to celebrate my seventy-sixth birthday with my children. I had travel...
MY EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. Without my knowledge or consent, my lifelong friend, Susan B. Anthony, who always seems to appreciate homage tendered to me more highly than even to herself...