Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Papers 1815-1902

Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfilm JK1899.S7A2

Description

Correspondence, speeches and other writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, social reformer and a leading proponent for more than fifty years of women's rights in political, economic, educational and religious spheres. Among her correspondents were: Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Cady, William Henry Channing, Lydia Maria Child, Frances Power Cobbe, Paulina Wright Davis, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, Emmeline Pankhurst, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth E. Pike, Henry Brewster Stanton, Lucy Stone, Edith Roosevelt, John Swinton, Theodore Tilton, Thurlow Weed, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

I. General correspondence, 1814-1928 and undated: Arranged chronologically.
II. Speeches and writings, 1848-1902 and undated: Arranged by types and chronologically therein.
III. Miscellany, 1840-1946 and undated.

A register with reel list is located on reel one of the microfilm.

Mrs. Stanton was an advocate of Negro rights and a leading suffragist. In addition, she was active in the temprance movement, campaigned for property rights for married women and promoted sexual equality in the areas of business, the professions, and the church. She is the author of The Women's Bible and, along with Susan B. Anthony and Mathilda Joslyn Gage, of volumes one through three of The History of Women Suffrage. Mrs. Stanton was also the first woman to run for the House of Representatives, and she was president of the National American Women Suffrage Association.