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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902
A bold voice in the early fight for women’s rights, she helped turn frustration into an organized movement. Her writing and organizing at Seneca Falls helped shape the long campaign for suffrage in the United States.
2 Audiobooks
The Woman's Bible
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
About the author
Born in Johnstown, New York, in 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton became one of the best-known leaders of the 19th-century women’s rights movement. She is especially remembered for helping organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and for drafting the Declaration of Sentiments, a landmark statement that demanded broader rights for women, including the vote.
Stanton was not only an organizer but also a prolific writer and speaker. Over many years, she worked closely with Susan B. Anthony, and together they became central figures in the long struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States. Her ideas reached beyond voting rights to questions of marriage, property, divorce, and women’s place in public life.
She died in 1902, nearly two decades before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. Even so, her work helped define the movement’s language, goals, and sense of urgency, and she remains a key figure in the history of American reform.