Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902),began her long career for woman's rights at the convention dedicated to this subject in her hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848. Soon thereafter she became the lifelong collaborator with Susan B. Anthony in working for woman suffrage, as well as for temperance laws and the abolition of slavery. While the plain Miss Anthony was a talented organizer, the warm, attractive Mrs. Stanton was more effective as a public speaker and a vigorous journalist. The differences in abilities and temperaments often caused disagreements, but they worked together in many ways to promote the women's cause, publishing the journal Revolution (1868–69) and compiling and editing the three volumes of the monumental History of Woman Suffrage (1881–86). Mrs. Stanton alone created The Woman's Bible (2 vols., 1895, 1898), interpreting from her point of view all references to women in the Bible. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869–90) and a successor organization for two years and a promulgator of the International Council of Women, the latter in part an outgrowth of frequent long visits late in life to be with her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch, married to an Englishman. Her last major work was her autobiography, Eighty Years and More (1898).