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Harriot Stanton Blatch
1856–1940
A bold voice in the American suffrage movement, she helped push the fight for voting rights into the 20th century by organizing working women and embracing energetic public activism. Her writing and campaigning connected the legacy of Seneca Falls to the mass movement that followed.
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Mobilizing Woman-Power
by Harriot Stanton Blatch
About the author
Born in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1856, Harriot Stanton Blatch grew up in one of the best-known reform families in the United States. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Brewster Stanton, graduated from Vassar College in 1878, and later became a writer, lecturer, and organizer shaped by both family influence and her own political instincts.
After spending years in England, where she was involved in reform circles, she returned to the United States and became an important force in the suffrage movement. She founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, worked to bring wage-earning women into the campaign for the vote, and helped popularize new tactics such as large public demonstrations and parades.
Blatch also wrote about women's political and economic power, including in Mobilizing Woman-Power. Remembered as a bridge between the early suffrage generation and the more modern movement that won national voting rights for women, she played a key role in making the cause broader, louder, and harder to ignore.