Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt & Alice Paul
The Women of the Suffrage Movement
Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes
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Table of Contents
History of Woman Suffrage (1848-1920)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter IV. Life at Peterboro.
Chapter V. Our Wedding Journey.
Chapter VIII. Boston and Chelsea.
Chapter IX. The First Woman's Rights Convention.
Chapter XI. Susan B. Anthony—Continued.
Chapter XII. My First Speech Before a Legislature.
Chapter XIII. Reforms and Mobs.
Chapter XIV. Views on Marriage and Divorce.
Chapter XV. Women as Patriots.
Chapter XVI. Pioneer Life in Kansas—Our Newspaper, "The Revolution."
Chapter XVII. Lyceums and Lecturers.
Chapter XIX. The Spirit of '76.
Chapter XX. Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage."
Chapter XXI. In the South of France.
Chapter XXII. Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain.
Chapter XXIII. Woman and Theology.
Chapter XXIV. England and France Revisited.
Chapter XXV. The International Council of Women.
Chapter XXVI. My Last Visit to England.
Chapter XXVII. Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832—The Woman's Bible.
Chapter XXVIII. My Eightieth Birthday.
Chapter I.
Childhood.
The psychical growth of a child is not influenced by days and years, but by the impressions passing events make on its mind. What may prove a sudden awakening to one, giving an impulse in a certain direction that may last for years, may make no impression on another. People wonder why the children of the same family differ so widely, though they have had the same domestic discipline, the same school and church teaching, and have grown up under the same influences and with the same environments. As well wonder why lilies and lilacs in the same latitude are not all alike in color and equally fragrant. Children differ as widely as these in the primal elements of their physical and psychical life.
Who can estimate the power of antenatal influences, or the child's surroundings in its earliest years, the effect of some passing word or sight on one, that makes no impression on another? The unhappiness of one child under a certain home discipline is not inconsistent with the content of another under this same