Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Literature, Religion, History, Biography, Politics, Education · English

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend for over 50 years. While Elizabeth initially stayed home with her husband and many babies and wrote the speeches, Susan went on the road to bring the message of the women’s rights movement to an often hostile public. When black men were given the vote in 1870, Susan and Elizabeth led the women’s rights establishment of the time to withhold support for a bill that would extend to black men the rights still denied for women of all colors. The two women worked for over 50 years on the women’s rights cause, yet neither lived to see women get the right to vote when it finally came in 1920.

Elizabeth begins her memoirs with this quotation, "Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." She dedicates this book to “SUSAN B. ANTHONY, MY STEADFAST FRIEND FOR HALF A CENTURY”. (Description written by Becky Miller)

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queue_music Chapters 28

1 01 - Childhood 33:32
2 02 - School Days 27:44
3 03 - Girlhood 28:29
4 04 - Life at Peterboro 36:56
5 05 - Our Wedding Journey 36:55
6 06 - Homeward Bound 27:54
7 07 - Motherhood 34:19
8 08 - Boston and Chelsea 28:51
9 09 - The First Woman's Rights Convention 20:42
10 10 - Susan B. Anthony 24:16
11 11 - Susan B. Anthony (continued) 31:49
12 12 - My First Speech Before a Legislature 24:07
13 13 - Reforms and Mobs 27:08
14 14 - Views on Marriage and Divorce 36:15
15 15 - Women as Patriots 23:40
16 16 - Pioneer Life in Kansas-Our Newspaper The 28:04
17 17 - Lyceums and Lecturers 41:10
18 18 - Westward Ho! 49:31
19 19 - The Spirit of '76 25:49
20 20 - Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage" 33:22
21 21 - In the South of France 30:29
22 22 - Reforms and reformers in Great Britain 55:58
23 23 - Woman and Theology 33:11
24 24 - England and France Revisited 27:39
25 25 - The International Council of Women 20:10
26 26 - My Last Visit to England 31:26
27 27 - Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832 - The Woman's Bible 43:52
28 28 - My Eightieth Birthday 22:32