Elizabeth Cady Stanton biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Author Name:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Born As:

Elizabeth Cady

Other Names:

Born:

12 Nov 1815

Died:

26 Oct 1902




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Writer, suffragist and women's rights activist                          
Selected Works:

Books:

History of Woman Suffrage; Volumes 1–3 - written with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage; vol 4–6 completed by other authors, including Anthony, Gage, and Ida Harper - 1881–1922

Solitude of Self - originally delivered as a speech in 1892; later published in a hard bound edition by Paris Press
The Woman's Bible - 1895, 1898

Eighty Years & More: Reminiscences 1815–1897 - 1898

Selected periodicals and journals:

Revolution - Stanton, co-editor - 1868–1870
Lily - published by Amelia Bloomer; Stanton as contributor
Una - published by Paulina Wright Davis; Stanton as contributor
New York Tribune - published by Horace Greeley; Stanton as contributor

Selected papers, essays, and speeches:

Declaration of Rights & Sentiments - 1848
A Petition for Universal Suffrage - 1866
Self-government the Best Means of Self-development - 1884
Solitude of Self - 1892
The Degradation of Disenfranchisement - 1892
Lyceum speeches: "Our Girls," "Our Boys," "Co-education," "Marriage and Divorce," "Prison Life," and "The Bible and Woman's Rights," among others.

Elizabeth Stanton's papers are archived at Rutgers University: 
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project, Rutgers University.                          
Mother Margaret Livingston Cady
Father Daniel Cady, eleven children. Elizabeth and four sisters lived into adulthood and old age.
Husband Henry Brewster Stanton, six children.                          
Opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while continuing to deny women, black and white, the same rights.                          
Elizabeth Cady refused to promise to "obey" her husband in the vows.