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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902
A fierce early voice for women's rights, she helped turn frustration into organized action and gave the Seneca Falls Convention some of its boldest language. Her speeches and writing pushed Americans to rethink marriage, property, education, religion, and the vote.
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 grew up in a prominent family and became one of the leading thinkers of the 19th-century women's rights movement. In 1848, she helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and drafted the "Declaration of Sentiments," a landmark document that called for broader rights for women, including suffrage.
Stanton was not only an organizer but also a prolific writer and speaker. Her long partnership with Susan B. Anthony helped shape the national campaign for women's voting rights, while her work ranged well beyond the ballot box to questions of property rights, divorce, child custody, education, and women's place in public life.
She remained an influential and sometimes controversial figure until her death in 1902. Today she is remembered as a powerful activist-intellectual whose ideas helped define the women's rights movement in the United States.