CHAPTER XXVIII.

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, made arrangements for the celebration of my eightieth

birthday, on the 12th day of November, 1895. She preferred that this

celebration should be conducted by the National Council of Women,

composed of a large number of organizations representing every

department of woman's labor, though, as the enfranchisement of woman had

been my special life work, it would have been more appropriate if the

celebration had been under the auspices of the National Woman's Suffrage

Association.

Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, President of the National Council of Women,

assumed the financial responsibility and the extensive correspondence

involved, and with rare tact, perseverance, and executive ability made

the celebration a complete success. In describing this occasion I cannot

do better than to reproduce, in part, Mrs. Dickinson's account,

published in _The Arena_:

"In the month of June, 1895, the National Council of Women issued the

following invitation:

"'Believing that the progress made by women in the last half century may

be promoted by a more general notice of their achievements, we propose

to hold, in New York city, a convention for this purpose. As an

appropriate time for such a celebration, the eightieth birthday of

Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been chosen. Her half century of pioneer work

for the rights of women makes her name an inspiration for such an

occasion and her life a fitting object for the homage of all women.

"'This National Council is composed of twenty organizations; these and

all other societies interested are invited to co-operate in grateful

recognition of the debt the present generation owes to the pioneers of

the past. From their interest in the enfranchisement of women, the

influence of Mrs. Stanton and her coadjutor, Miss Anthony, has permeated

all departments of progress and made them a common center round which

all interested in woman's higher development may gather.'

"To this invitation came responses, from the Old World and the New,

expressing sympathy with the proposed celebration, which was intended to

emphasize a great principle by showing the loftiness of character that

had resulted from its embodiment in a unique personality. The world

naturally thinks of the personality before it thinks of the principle.

It has, at least, so much unconscious courtesy left as to honor a noble

woman, even when failing to rightly apprehend a noble cause. To afford

this feeling its proper expression, to render more tangible all vague

sympathy, to crystallize the growing sentiment in favor of human

freedom, to give youth the opportunity to reverence the glory of age, to

give hearts their utterances in word and song was perhaps the most

popular purpose of the reunion. In other words, it gave an opportunity

for those who revered Mrs. Stanton as a queen among women to show their

reverence, and to recognize the work her life had wrought, and to see in

it an epitome of the progress of a century.

"The celebration was also an illustration of the distinctive idea of the

National Council of Women, which aims to give recognition to all human

effort without demanding uniformity of opinion as a basis of

co-operation. It claims to act upon a unity of service, notwithstanding

differences of creed and methods. The things that separate, shrank back

into the shadows where they belong, and all hearts brave enough to

think, and tender enough to feel, found it easy to unite in homage to a

life which had known a half century of struggle to lift humanity from

bondage and womanhood from shame.

"This reunion was the first general recognition of the debt the present

owes to the past. It was the first effort to show the extent to which

later development has been inspired and made possible by the freedom to

think and work claimed in that earlier time by women like Lucretia Mott,

Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton, and many others whose names stand as synonyms

of noble service for the race. To those who looked at the reunion from

this point of view it could not fail of inspiration.

"For the followers in lines of philanthropic work to look in the faces

and hear the voices of women like Clara Barton and Mary Livermore; for

the multitude enlisted in the crowded ranks of literature to feel in the

living presence, what literature owes to women like Julia Ward Howe; for

the white ribbon army to turn from its one great leader of to-day whose

light, spreading to the horizon, does not obscure or dim the glory of

the crusade leaders of the past; for art lovers and art students to

call to mind sculptors like Harriet Hosmer and Anna Whitney, and

remember the days when art was a sealed book to women; for the followers

of the truly divine art of healing to honor the Blackwell sisters and

the memory of Mme. Clemence Lozier; for the mercy of surgery to reveal

itself in the face of Dr. Cushier, who has proved for us that heart of

pity and hand of skill need never be divorced; for women lifting their

eyes to meet the face of Phebe A. Hanaford and Anna Shaw and other women

who to-day in the pulpit, as well as out of it, may use a woman's right

to minister to needy souls; for the ofttime sufferers from unrighteous

law to welcome women lawyers; for the throng of working women to read

backward through the story of four hundred industries to their beginning

in the 'four,' and remember that each new door had opened because some

women toiled and strove; for all these the exercises were a part of a

great thanksgiving paean, each phase of progress striking its own chord,

and finding each its echo in the hearts that held it dear.

"To the student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the

times, there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes

one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details. Yet as a

pageant only it was a most inspiring sight, and one truly worthy of a

queen. Indeed as we run the mind back over the pages of history, what

queen came to a more triumphant throne in the hearts of a grateful

people? What woman ever before sat silver-crowned, canopied with

flowers, surrounded not by servile followers but by men and women who

brought to her court the grandest service they had wrought, their best

thought crystallized in speech and song. Greater than any triumphal

procession that ever marked a royal passage through a kingdom was it to

know that in a score or more of cities, in many a village church on that

same night festive fires were lighted, and the throng kept holiday,

bringing for tribute not gold and gems but noblest aspirations, truest

gratitude, and highest ideals for the nation and the race.

"The great meeting was but one link in a chain; yet with its thousands

of welcoming faces, with its eloquence of words, with its offering of

sweetest song from the children of a race that once was bound but now is

free, with its pictured glimpses of the old time and the new flashing

out upon the night, with the home voices offering welcome and gratitude

and love, with numberless greetings, from the great, true, brave souls

of many lands, it was indeed a wonderful tribute, worthy of the great

warm heart of a nation that offered it, and worthy of the woman so

revered.

"It seemed fitting that Mme. Antoinette Sterling, who, twenty years ago,

took her wonderful voice away to England, where it won for her a unique

place in the hearts of the nation, should, on returning to her country,

give her first service to the womanhood of her native land. 'I am coming

a week earlier,' so she had written, 'that my first work in my own

beloved America may be done for women. I am coming as a woman and not as

an artist, and because I so glory in that which the women of my country

have achieved.' So when she sang out of her heart, 'O rest in the Lord;

wait patiently for him!' no marvel that it seemed to lift all listening

hearts to a recognition of the divine secret and source of power for all

work.

"One charming feature of the entertainment was a series of pictures

called 'Then and Now,' each illustrating the change in woman's condition

during the last fifty years. And after this, upon the dimness there

shone out, one after another, the names of noble women like Mary Lyon,

Maria Mitchell, Emma Willard, and many others who have passed away. Upon

the shadows and the silence broke Mme. Sterling's voice in Tennyson's

'Crossing the Bar.' And when this was over, as with one voice, the whole

audience sang softly 'Auld Lang Syne.'

"And last but not least should be mentioned the greetings that poured in

a shower of telegrams and letters from every section of the country, and

many from over the sea. These expressions, not only of personal

congratulation for Mrs. Stanton, but utterances of gladness for the

progress in woman's life and thought, for the conditions, already so

much better than in the past, and for the hope for the future, would

make of themselves a most interesting and wonderful chapter. Among them

may be mentioned letters from Lord and Lady Aberdeen, from Lady Henry

Somerset and Frances E. Willard, from Canon Wilberforce, and many

others, including an address from thirty members of the family of John

Bright, headed by his brother, the Right Honorable Jacob Bright; a

beautifully engrossed address, on parchment, from the National Woman

Suffrage Society of Scotland, an address from the London Women's

Franchise League, and a cablegram from the Bristol Women's Liberal

Association; a letter from the Women's Rights Society of Finland, signed

by its president, Baroness Gripenberg of Helsingfors; telegrams from the

California Suffrage Pioneers; and others from the Chicago Woman's Club,

from the Toledo and Ohio Woman's Suffrage Society, from the son of the

Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing, and a telegram and letter from

citizens and societies of Seneca Falls, New York, accompanied with

flowers and many handsome pieces of silver from the different societies.

There were also letters from Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, ex-minister to

Turkey, Miss Ellen Terry, and scores of others. An address was received

from the Women's Association of Utah, accompanied by a beautiful onyx

and silver ballot box; and from the Shaker women of Mount Lebanon came

an ode; a solid silver loving cup from the New York City Suffrage

League, presented on the platform with a few appropriate words by its

President, Mrs. Devereux Blake.

"Hundreds of organizations and societies, both in this country and

abroad, wished to have their names placed on record as in sympathy with

the movement. Many organizations were present in a body, and one was

reminded, by the variety and beauty of the decorations of their boxes,

of the Venetian Carnival, as the occupants gazed down from amid the

silken banners and the flowers, upon the throng below. The whole

occasion was indeed a unique festival, unique in its presentation, as

well as in its purpose, plan, character, and spirit. No woman present

could fail to be impressed with what we owe to the women of the past,

and especially to this one woman who was the honored guest of the

occasion. And no young woman could desire to forget the picture of this

aged form as, leaning upon her staff, Mrs. Stanton spoke to the great

audience of over six thousand, as she had spoken hundreds of times

before in legislative halls, and whenever her word could influence the

popular sentiment in favor of justice for all mankind."

My birthday celebration, with all the testimonials of love and

friendship I received, was an occasion of such serious thought and deep

feeling as I had never before experienced. Having been accustomed for

half a century to blame rather than praise, I was surprised with such a

manifestation of approval; I could endure any amount of severe criticism

with complacency, but such an outpouring of homage and affection stirred

me profoundly. To calm myself during that week of excitement, I thought

many times of Michelet's wise motto, "Let the weal and woe of humanity

be everything to you, their praise and blame of no effect; be not puffed

up with the one nor cast down with the other."

Naturally at such a time I reviewed my life, its march and battle on the

highways of experience, and counted its defeats and victories. I

remembered when a few women called the first convention to discuss their

disabilities, that our conservative friends said: "You have made a great

mistake, you will be laughed at from Maine to Texas and beyond the sea;

God has set the bounds of woman's sphere and she should be satisfied

with her position." Their prophecy was more than realized; we were

unsparingly ridiculed by the press and pulpit both in England and

America. But now many conventions are held each year in both countries

to discuss the same ideas; social customs have changed; laws have been

modified; municipal suffrage has been granted to women in England and

some of her colonies; school suffrage has been granted to women in half

of our States, municipal suffrage in Kansas, and full suffrage in four

States of the Union. Thus the principle scouted in 1848 was accepted in

England in 1870, and since then, year by year, it has slowly progressed

in America until the fourth star shone out on our flag in 1896, and

Idaho enfranchised her women! That first convention, considered a "grave

mistake" in 1848, is now referred to as "a grand step in progress."

My next mistake was when, as president of the New York State Woman's

Temperance Association, I demanded the passage of a statute allowing

wives an absolute divorce for the brutality and intemperance of their

husbands. I addressed the Legislature of New York a few years later when

a similar bill was pending, and also large audiences in several of our

chief cities, and for this I was severely denounced. To-day fugitives

from such unholy ties can secure freedom in many of the Western States,

and enlightened public sentiment sustains mothers in refusing to hand

down an appetite fraught with so many evil consequences. This, also

called a "mistake" in 1860, was regarded as a "step in progress" a few

years later.

Again, I urged my coadjutors by speeches, letters, and resolutions, as a

means of widespread agitation, to make the same demands of the Church

that we had already made of the State. They objected, saying, "That is

too revolutionary, an attack on the Church would injure the suffrage

movement." But I steadily made the demand, as opportunity offered, that

women be ordained to preach the Gospel and to fill the offices as

elders, deacons, and trustees. A few years later some of these

suggestions were accepted. Some churches did ordain women as pastors

over congregations of their own, others elected women deaconesses, and a

few churches allowed women, as delegates, to sit in their conferences.

Thus this demand was in a measure honored and another "step in

progress" taken.

In 1882 I tried to organize a committee to consider the status of women

in the Bible, and the claim that the Hebrew Writings were the result of

divine inspiration. It was thought very presumptuous for women not

learned in languages and ecclesiastical history to undertake such work.

But as we merely proposed to comment on what was said of women in plain

English, and found these texts composed only one-tenth of the Old and

New Testaments, it did not seem to me a difficult or dangerous

undertaking. However, when Part I. of "The Woman's Bible" was published,

again there was a general disapproval by press and pulpit, and even by

women themselves, expressed in resolutions in suffrage and temperance

conventions. Like other "mistakes," this too, in due time, will be

regarded as "a step in progress."

Such experiences have given me confidence in my judgment, and patience

with the opposition of my coadjutors, with whom on so many points I

disagree. It requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage,

temperance legislation, liberal divorce laws, or for women to fill

church offices--these battles have been fought and won and the principle

governing these demands conceded. But it still requires courage to

question the divine inspiration of the Hebrew Writings as to the

position of woman. Why should the myths, fables, and allegories of the

Hebrews be held more sacred than those of the Assyrians and Egyptians,

from whose literature most of them were derived? Seeing that the

religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all

other adverse influences, I feel impelled to reiterate my demands for

justice, liberty, and equality in the Church as well as in the State.

The birthday celebration was to me more than a beautiful pageant; more

than a personal tribute. It was the dawn of a new day for the Mothers of

the Race! The harmonious co-operation of so many different

organizations, with divers interests and opinions, in one grand jubilee

was, indeed, a heavenly vision of peace and hope; a prophecy that with

the exaltation of Womanhood would come new Life, Light, and Liberty to

all mankind.

INDEX OF NAMES.

* * * * *

Aberdeen, _Lord_ and _Lady_,

Addington, Laura,

Albert, _Prince_,

Alcott, A. Bronson,

Alcott, Louisa M.,

Allison, Miss,

Amberly, _Lord_ and _Lady_,

Ames, Mary Clemmer,

Anderson, Dr. Garrett,

André, _Major_ John,

Andrews, _Governor_ John A.,

Anthony, Daniel,

Anthony, _Senator_ Henry B.,

Anthony, Lucy,

Anthony, Mary,

Anthony, Susan B.,

Arnold, _General_ Benedict,

Arnold, Matthew,

Astor, John Jacob,

Auchet, Hubertine,

Austin, _Dr_. Harriet N.,

Ayer, Mrs. J.C.,

Backus, Wealthea,

Bagley, _Governor_,

Bagley, Mrs.,

Baird, _General_,

Baldwin, Elizabeth McMartin,

Balgarnie, Miss,

Banning, Ella B.,

Banning, William L.,

Barclay, Cornelia,

Barrau, Caroline de,

Bartlett, Paul,

Barton, Clara,

Bascom, Mr.,

Bascora, Mary,

Bayard, _Dr_. Edward,

Bayard, Henry,

Bayard, Thomas F.,

Bayard, Tryphena Cady,

Beach, Myron,

Beaman, _Rev. Dr_.,

Becker, Lydia,

Beecher, Catharine,

Beecher, _Rev_. Henry Ward,

Bellamy, Edward,

Bellows, Rev. Henry,

Benedict, Lewis,

Bently, _Judge_,

Berry, Mme.,

Berry, Marguerite,

Berry, Mrs.,

Bertaux, Mme. Léon,

Besant, Annie,

Bickerdyke, _Mother_,

Biddle, Chapman,

Biddle, George,

Biggs, Caroline,

Bigelow, John,

Bigelow, Mrs. John,

Bingham, John A.,

Bird, Frank W.,

Birney, James Gr.,

Bjornson, Bjornstjorne,

Blackburn, Miss,

Blackwell, Antoinette Brown,

Blackwell, _Dr_. Elizabeth,

Blackwell, H.B.,

Blaine, _Senator_ James G.,

Blaine, Mrs. James G.,

Blair, _Senator_ Henry W.,

Blake, Lillie Devereux,

Blatch, Harriot Stanton,

Blatch, Nora Stanton,

Blatch, William H.,

Blavatsky, Mme.,

Bloomer, Amelia,

Bogelot, Isabella,

Bogue, _Rev. Dr_.,

Bonaparte, Napoleon,

Botta, Anne Lynch,

Boucherett, Jessie,

Bowles, Samuel,

Bradburn, George,

Bradlaugh, _Hon_. Charles, M, P.,

Bradwell, Myra,

Bright, _Hon_. Jacob, M.P.,

Bright, Mrs. Jacob,

Bright, _Hon_. John, M.P.,

Broomall, John M.,

Brougham, Henry, Lord,

Brown, Antoinette L.,

Brown, John,

Brown, Olympia,

Brown, Mr.,

Browne, Sir Thomas, M.D.,

Browning, Robert,

Brownson, Orestes A.,

Bryan, William J..

Bryant, Miss,

Bryant, William Cullen,

Bullard, Laura Curtis,

Burlingame, Anson,

Burleigh, Celia,

Burleigh, Mrs. William,

Burnet, Rev. J.,

Burr, Frances Ellen,

Burroughs, Herbert,

Busbey, L. White,

Bushnell, Horace,

Butler, General Benjamin F.,

Butler, Josephine,

Byron, Lady,

Byron, Lord,

Cabot, Frederick,

Cady, Judge Daniel,

Cady, Eleazer,

Cady, Margaret Livingston,

Caird, Mona,

Cameron, Judge Hugh,

Carlisle, Lora and Lady,

Carlyle, Thomas,

Carnegie, Andrew,

Carroll, Anna,

Cary, Alice,

Cary, Phoebe,

Channing, Rev. Dr. William Ellery,

Channing, Dr. William F.,

Channing, Rev. William Henry,

Chant, Ormiston,

Chapman, Maria,

Chase, William,

Cheever, Rev. George B.,

Child, Lydia Maria,

Choate, Joseph H.,

Christie, Margaret,

Clark, Helen Bright,

Clarkson, Thomas,

Cleveland, Grover,

Clinton, Governor De Witt C,

Cluseret, General,

Cobb, Mr. and Mrs.,

Cobbe, Frances Power,

Cobden, Jane,

Cochrane, James,

Cochrane, _General_ John,

Cochrane, Mary,

Colby, Clara B.,

Cole, Senator Cornelius,

Coleridge, Lady,

Collyer, Rev. Robert,

Combe, Andrew,

Comte, Auguste,

Conkling, Judge Alfred,

Conkling, Roscoe,

Conway, Rev. Moncure D.,

Conway, Mrs. Moncure D.,

Cooley, Judge Thomas M.,

Couzins, Phoebe W.,

Croly, Jennie C,

Crowninshield, Captain A.S.,

Crowninshield, Mary,

Cox, S.S.,

Coxe, Bishop,

Curtis, George William,

Cushier, Dr.,

Cushman, Charlotte,

Dana, Charles A.,

Dana, Eunice MacDaniel,

Darling, Anna B.,

Darlington, Chandler,

Darlington, Hannah,

Davis, Edward M.,

Davis. Paulina Wright,

Davitt, Michael.

Depesyrons, Professor,

Deraismes, Mme. Féresse,

Deraismes, Maria,

Dickinson, Anna E.,

Dickinson, Mary Lowe,

Dietrick, Ellen Battelle,

Dilke, Mrs. Ashton,

Dilke, Sir Charles,

Dix, Dorothy, L.,

Dix, General John A.,

Douglass, Frederick,

Douglass, Mr.,

Dowden, Professor,

Dudley, Blandina Bleecker,

Dumas, Alexandre,

Durand, Mme. M.E.,

Dyer, Charles Gifford,

Dyer, Hella,

Eaton, Professor Amos B.,

Eaton, Daniel C,

Eaton, Harriet Cady,

Eddy, Miss,

Eddy, Mrs. Jackson, s

Edmunds, Senator George F.,

Eliot, George,

Euet, Elizabeth F.,

Ellsler, Fanny,

Elmy, Mrs.,

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,

England, Isaac W.,

England, Mrs. Isaac W.,

Everett, Charles,

Fabre, Senator Joseph,

Fairchild, Governor Lucius,

Faithful, Emily,

Farnham, Mrs..

Fawcett, Henry, M.P.,

Fawcett, Milicent J.,

Ferry, Jules,

Ferry, Senator Thomas W.,

Field, Rev. Dr. Henry M.,

Field, Kate,

Fine, Judge,

Finney, Rev. Charles G.,

Fitzhugh, Ann Carroll,

Fitzhugh, Miss,

Folsom, Abigail,

Forbes, Arethusa,

Forney, John W.,

Foster, Abby Kelly,

Foster, Rachel,

Foster, Stephen,

Frederic, Harold,

Fremont, _General_ John C,

French, Daniel C,

Frothingham, _Rev_. O.B.,

Fronde, James Anthony,

Fry, Elizabeth,

Fuller, Kate,

Fuller, Margaret,

Fuller, W.J.A.,

Furness, _Rev_. William H.,

Gage, Frances Dana,

Gage, Matilda Joslyn,

Gardener, Helen H.,

Garibaldi, _General_ G.,

Garrison, Gertrude,

Garrison, William Lloyd,

Garrison, Mrs. W.L.,

Gay, Sidney Howard,

Geddes, Mr.,

George, Henry,

Gestefeld, Ursula N.,

Gibbons, Abby Hopper,

Gillespie, Mrs.,

Gladstone, _Right Hon_., William E.,

Gladstone, Mrs. W.E.,

Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft,

Godwin, William,

Grant, _General_, Ulysses S.,

Greeley, Horace,

Greeley, Mrs. Horace,

Greene, Beriah,

Greenough, Mrs. W.H.,

Greenwood, Grace,

Gréville, Henri,

Grévy, _President_ Jules,

Grévy, Mme. Jules,

Grew, Mary,

Grey, Maria G.,

Grimké, Angelina,

Grimké, Sarah,

Gripenberg, _Baroness_ Alexandra,

Gurney, John Joseph,

Gurney, Samuel,

Gustafsen, Mrs.,

Hammond, _Dr_. William A.,

Hanaford, _Rev_. Phebe A.,

Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton,

Harberton, _Lady_,

Harvey, _Rev_. A.,

Hawley, _General_ Joseph R.,

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,

Hazeltine, Mayo W.,

Heine, Heinrich,

Hertell, _Judge_

Hertz, Fannie,

Hicks, Elias,

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,

Hill, Octavia,

Hill, _President_,

Hinckley, _Rev_. Frederick A.,

Hoar, _Senator_ George F.,

Hoggan, _Dr_. Frances E.,

Hoisington, Rev. William,

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,

Hooker, Isabella Beecher,

Holyoake, George Jacob,

Hosack, _Rev_. Simon,

Hoskins, Frances,

Hosmer, Harriet,

Hovey, Charles,

Howe, Julia Ward,

Howell, _Judge_,

Howell, Mary Seymour,

Howells, William D.,

Howells, Mrs. William D.,

Howitt, Mary,

Hudson, Harriet,

Hugo, Victor,

Hunt, Jane,

Hunt, _Dr_. Harriet K.,

Hunt, _Judge_ Ward,

Hunt, Richard,

Hurlbert, _Judge_,

Huron, Mr.,

Hutchinson, _Family_,

Hutchins, Mr.,

Hyacinthe, _Père_,

Ingersoll, Robert G.,

Jackson, Francis,

Jackson, _Dr_. James,

Jackson, _Dr_. Kate,

Jackson, Mr. and Mrs.,

Jackson, Mrs.,

Jacobi, _Dr_. Mary Putnam,

Jameson, Anna,

Janes, _Bishop_,

Jarvis, Helen,

Jenckes, Thomas A.,

Jenkins, Lydia,

Jenney, Mr. and Mrs.,

Johnson, Adelaide,

Johnson, Mariana,

Johnson, Oliver,

Johnson, _Sir_ William,

Joly, _Professor_ Nicholas,

Jones, Phoebe,

June, Jennie,

Kelley, William D.,

Kelley, Abby,

Kennan, George,

Kent, _Chancellor_,

Kergomard, Pauline,

Kilpatrick, _General_,

Kimber, Abby,

King, _Captain_ Charles,

Kingsford, Anna,

Kingsley, _Canon_ Charles,

Klumpke, Anna,

Krapotkine, _Prince_,

Laboulaye, Edouard R.L.,

LaFayette, _Marquis_ de,

Lampson, _Father_,

Lapham, Anson,

Lauterbach, Mrs. Edward,

Lawrence, Frank E.,

Lawrence, Margaret Stanton,

Lawson, _Sir_ Wilfrid,

Leavitt, Joshua,

Lecky, W.E.H.,

Lee, Richard Henry,

Lee, Theresa,

Lieneff, Mr.,

Lincoln, Abraham,

Livermore, Mary A.,

Livingston, Colonel James,

Livingston, Margaret,

Livingston, Mary,

Logan, Olive,

Long, Governor John D.,

Longfellow, Henry W.,

Longfellow, Rev. Samuel,

Lord, Dr.,

Lord, Emily,

Lord, Frances,

Louis Philippe,

Lowell, James Russell,

Lozier, Dr. Clemence S.,

Lucas, Margaret Bright,

Lyon, Mary,

McClintock, Elizabeth,

McClintock, Mary Ann,

McKeon, Judge,

McLaren, Charles,

McLaren, Mrs. Charles,

McLaren, Hon. Duncan, M.P.,

McLaren, Priscilla Bright,

McLaren, Walter,

McMartin, Donald,

McMartin, Duncan,

McMartin, Margaret Cady,

MacDaniel, Eunice,

MacDaniel, Frances L.,

MacDaniel, Osborne,

Macaulay, Thomas Babbington,

Maire, Rev. Hugh,

Mann, Horace,

Mann, Prestona,

Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice,

Mansfield, Mrs. A.A.,

Marsh, Luther R.,

Martineau, Harriet,

Massey, Gerald,

May, Rev. Samuel J.,

Mellen, Mrs. William,

Mendenhall, Dinah,

Meredith, George,

Michel, Louise,

Michelet, Jules,

Milinowski, Captain Arthur,

Mill, John Stuart,

Mill, Mrs. John Stuart,

Miller, Charles Dudley,

Miller, Colonel,

Miller, Elizabeth Smith,

Miller, Gerrit Smith,

Miller, Jenness,

Miller, John B.,

Miller, Judge,

Miller, Justice Samuel F.,

Minor, Virginia L.,

Mitchell, Dr. Julia,

Mitchell, Dr. Kate,

Mitchell, Professor Maria,

Moffett, Rev. Dr.,

Moliner, Professor,

Morley, John,

Morpeth, Lord,

Morris, William,

Morrison, Cotton,

Morsier, Emilie de,

Morton, Edwin,

Mott, Lucretia,

Mott, Lydia,

Moulton, Louise Chandler,

Moulton, Mrs.,

Müller, Eva,

Müller, Henrietta,

Murray, Eliza, in,

Napoleon,

Neal, Elizabeth,

Nichol, Elizabeth Pease,

O'Connell, Daniel, go,

O'Conor, Charles,

Olmstead, Rev. John W.,

Olmstead, Mary Livingston,

Opie, Amelia,

Orr, Mrs.,

Osborne, Eliza W.,

O'Shea, Mrs. Kitty,

Owen, Robert Dale,

Palmer, Senator John M.,

Parker, Margaret,

Parker, Theodore,

Parkhurst, Mrs.,

Parnell, Charles Stewart,

Parsons, Chauncey C,

Parsons, Mrs. Chauncey C,

Patton, Rev. Dr.,

Peabody, Elizabeth,

Pearson, Karl,

Pease, Elizabeth,

Phelps, Elizabeth B.,

Phillips, Ann Green,

Phillips, Wendell,

Pierpont, John,

Pillsbury, Parker,

Plumb, Senator Preston B.,

Pochin, Mrs.,

Pomeroy, "Brick,"

Powell, Aaron,

Powell, Professor,

Priestman, Annie,

Priestman, Mary,

Pugh, Sarah,

Quincy, Edmund,

Ramsey, Mr.,

Reid, Mrs. Hugo,

Remond, Charles,

Richer, Léon,

Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich,

Ripley, George,

Ripley, Mrs. George,

Richardson, Abby Sage,

Ristori, Marchionesse Adelaide,

Robinson, Governor Charles,

Roby, Matilda,

Rogers, Caroline Gilkey,

Rogers, Nathaniel P.,

Roland, Mme.,

Rosa, Mr.,

Rose, Ernestine L.,

Root, Elihu,

Rouvier, M.,

Runkle, Mrs.,

Ruskin, John,

Sackett, Fudge Gerrit V.,

Sage, Russell,

Sage, Mrs. Russell,

Sanborn, Frank,

Sanders, Mrs. Henry M.,

Sargent, Senator Aaron A.,

Sargent, Mrs. Aaron A.,

Saville, Mrs.,

Scatcherd, Alice Cliff,

Scatcherd, Mr.,

Schenck, Elizabeth B.,

Schenck, Robert C,

Scoble, Rev. John,

Seaman, Mr.,

Seidl, Professor,

Sewall, May Wright,

Sewall, Samuel E.,

Sewall, Mrs. Samuel E.,

Seward, Governor William H.,

Seward, Mrs. William H.,

Shaftesbury, Lord,

Shaw, Rev. Anna,

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,

Shelley, Percy Florence,

Smalley, George W.,

Smith, Ann Carroll Fitzhugh,

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes,

Smith, Gerrit,

Smith, Greene,

Smith, Professor Horace,

Smith, Mrs. Horace,

Smith, Peter Sken,

Smith, Sidney,

Smith, Sisters,

Somerset, Lady Henry,

Southwick, Abby,

Southwick, Joseph,

Southwick. Thankful,

Southworth, Louisa,

Spaulding, Bishop,

Spence, Clara,

Spencer, John C,

Spencer, Sarah Andrews,

Spofford, Jane Snow,

Spofford, Mr.,

Sprague, Governor William,

Staël, Mme. de,

Stanford, Senator Leland,

Stanley, Dean,

Stansfeld, Mr., M.P.,

Stanton, Hon. Daniel Cady,

Stanton, Edwin M.,

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Granddaughter of author,

Stanton, _Hon_. Gerrit Smith,

Stanton, Harriot Eaton,

Stanton, Henry,

Stanton, _Hon_. Henry Brewster,

Stanton, Margaret Livingston,

Stanton, Marguerite Berry,

Stanton, Robert Livingston,

Stanton, Theodore,

Stead, William T.,

Stebbins, Catharine F.,

Stebbins, Giles,

Stebbins, Mrs.,

Steinthal, _Rev_. Mr.,

Stepniak,

Sterling, Antoinette,

Stevens, Thaddeus,

Stevenson, Robert Louis,

Stewart, Alvin,

Stone, Lucy,

Stout, _Rev_. C.,

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,

Straus, Oscar S.,

Stuart, Charles,

Stuart, _Dr_. Jacob H.,

Stuart, Mrs. Jacob H.,

Stuart, _Professor_,

Sturge, Joseph,

Sumner, Charles,

Sutherland, _Duchess_ of,

Swift, Isabella,

Swift, _Lieutenant_,

Tanner, Mrs.,

Taylor, Helen,

Taylor, Mrs. Peter A.,

Terry, Ellen,

Thacher, _Mayor_,

Thomson, Adeline,

Thomasson, _Hon_. John P., _M. P_.,

Thomasson, Mrs. John P.,

Thompkins, _Governor_ Daniel D.,

Thompson, George,

Thompson, May Wright,

Tilton, Theodore,

Train, George Francis,

Traut, Mme. Griess,

Tree, Ellen,

Tudor, Mrs. Fenno,

Tyler, _Professor_, Moses Coit,

Tyng, _Dr_. Stephen,

Underhill, Zoe Dana,

Van Vechten, Abraham,

Vest, _Senator_ George G.,

Victoria, _Queen_,

Vignon, Claude,

Villard, Fanny Garrison,

Villard, Henry,

Vincent, Henry,

Virchow, _Professor_,

Waite, _Chief Justice_ Morrison R.,

Walter, Ellen Cochrane,

Walsingham, _Sir_ Francis,

"Warrington,"

Washington, _General_ George,

Weed, Thurlow,

Weld, Angelina Grimke,

Weld, Theodore D.,

Wellington, _Duke_ of,

Wells, Emeline B.,

West, Benjamin,

Weston, Deborah,

Whipple, E.P.,

Whitney, Anna,

Whittier, John G.,

Whittle, _Dr._ Ewing,

Wigham, Eliza,

Wigham, Jane,

Wilberforce, Canon,

Wilberforce, William,

Wilbour, Charlotte Beebe,

Wilkeson, Catherine Cady,

Wilkeson, Samuel,

Willard, Amelia,

Willard, Emma,

Willard, Frances E.,

Willard, Mrs. John,

Williams, _Senator_ C.G.,

Williams, Elisha,

Wilson, Daniel,

Winckworth, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen,

Winslow, Emily,

Woodhull, Victoria,

Wollstonecraft, Mary,

Woodward, Mr.,

Worden, Mrs.,

Wright, David,

Wright, Frances,

Wright, Henry C.,

Wright, Martha C.,

Wright, Mr.,

Wright, Paulina,

Yost, Elizabeth W.,

Yost, Maria,

Zackesewska, _Dr._ M.E.,

[_Portions of Chapters X. and XI. of this book are taken by permission

from an article written by Mrs. Stanton for "Our Famous Women,"

published by A.D. Worthington & Co._]