Nonfiction · 1898
Eighty Years and More
Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton opens her memoir in her father's law office in Johnstown, New York, recalling how, reading through his law books as a girl, she discovered how little property, wages, or custody of their own children the law allowed a married woman. At the Seneca Falls Convention she helped organize in 1848, she read aloud a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence, and spent the following decades working alongside Susan B. Anthony for a vote she would not live to see granted.
Published in 1898, when Stanton was eighty-two, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 covers her childhood, her marriage to abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton, raising seven children, and the public career that made her one of the architects of the American suffrage movement.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter I — Childhood
- Chapter II — School Days
- Chapter III — Girlhood
- Chapter IV — Life at Peterboro
- Chapter V — Our Wedding Journey
- Chapter VI — Homeward Bound
- Chapter VII — Motherhood
- Chapter VIII — Boston and Chelsea
- Chapter IX — The First Woman’s Rights Convention
- Chapter X — Susan B. Anthony
- Chapter XI — Susan B. Anthony—Continued
- Chapter XII — My First Speech Before a Legislature
- Chapter XIII — Reforms and Mobs
- Chapter XIV — Views on Marriage and Divorce
- Chapter XV — Women as Patriots
- Chapter XVI — Pioneer Life in Kansas—Our Newspaper, “The Revolution.”
- Chapter XVII — Lyceums and Lecturers
- Chapter XVIII — Westward Ho!
- Chapter XIX — The Spirit of ‘76
- Chapter XX — Writing “The History of Woman Suffrage.”
- Chapter XXI — In the South of France
- Chapter XXII — Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain
- Chapter XXIII — Woman and Theology
- Chapter XXIV — England and France Revisited
- Chapter XXV — The International Council of Women
- Chapter XXVI — My Last Visit to England
- Chapter XXVII — Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832—The Woman’s Bible
- Chapter XXVIII — My Eightieth Birthday
- Index of Names
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1815–1902 · Victorian
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was born in Johnstown, New York, the daughter of a judge whose law office she haunted as a girl, poring over the statutes that stripped married women of their property and rights. She organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and wrote its Declaration of Sentiments, and in 1869 co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the movement for half a century. Stanton also wrote the controversial two-part Woman's Bible (1895–98) and the autobiography Eighty Years and More (1898). She died in New York City at eighty-six.
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