Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Elizabeth Cady Stanton In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Chapter 1 - Childhood
Chapter 2 - School days
Chapter 3 - Girlhood
Chapter 4 -Life at Peterboro
Chapter 5 - Our wedding journey
Chapter 6 - Homeward bound
Chapter 7 - Motherhood
Chapter 8 - Boston and Chelsea
Chapter 9 - The first woman's rights convention
Chapter 10 - Susan B. Anthony
Chapter 11 - Susan B. Anthony (continued)
Chapter 12 - My first speech before a legislature
Chapter 13 - Reforms and mobs
Chapter 14 - Views on marriage and divorce
Chapter 15 - Women as patriots
Chapter 16 - Pioneer life in Kansas—our newspaper "The Revolution"
Chapter 17 - Lyceums and lecturers
Chapter 18 - Westward ho!
Chapter 19 - The spirit of '76
Chapter 20 - Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage"
Chapter 21 - In the south of France
Chapter 22 - Reforms and reformers in Great Britain
Chapter 23 - Woman and theology
Chapter 24 - England and France revisited
Chapter 25 - The International Council of Women
Chapter 26 - My last visit to England
Chapter 27 - Sixtieth anniversary of the class of 1832—The Woman's Bible
Chapter 28 - My eightieth birthday

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend for over 50 years. While Elizabeth initially stayed home with her husband and many babies and wrote the speeches, Susan went on the road to bring the message of the women’s rights movement to an often hostile public. When black men were given the vote in 1870, Susan and Elizabeth led the women’s rights establishment of the time to withhold support for a bill that would extend to black men the rights still denied for women of all colors. The two women worked for over 50 years on the women’s rights cause, yet neither lived to see women get the right to vote when it finally came in 1920.

Elizabeth begins her memoirs with this quotation, "Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization", and dedicates this book to “Susan B. Anthony, my steadfast friend for half a century." (Summary by Becky Miller)