The writer and reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was perhaps the most gifted and versatile feminist leader in American history. Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815. The daughter of a judge, she became a...

The writer and reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was perhaps the most gifted and versatile feminist leader in American history. Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 1815. The daughter of a judge, she became a feminist while...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in an era when the law placed a "burden of sex" on women, denying them property ownership, employment, and suffrage, as well as rights in marriage and over their children. For much of her adult life, she led the woman's...

In mid-July, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, and Martha Coffin Wright sat around a mahogany table in Mary Ann McClintock's parlor in Waterloo, New York, writing a Declaration of Sentiments calling for changes in American...

(b. November 12, 1815; d. October 16, 1902) Women's rights activist and leader in the Abolitionist movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton supported the Civil War to end slavery and to gain equal rights not only for Blacks but also for women. While...

Stanton was one of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement in the United States during the nineteenth century. More radical in her views than her close friend Susan B. Anthony, Stanton advocated a wide range of feminist reforms in law,...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Born November 12, 1815 Johnstown, New York Died October 26, 1902 New York, New York Women’s rights activist, feminist philosopher, and writer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a visionary leader of the women’s rights movement...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902), was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was a prominent feminist, an advocate for free thought and a firm believer in separation of church and state. She angered some feminists when she helped write 'The Woman's Bible' in 1895, which was a revisionist interpretation of the Bible....

The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton By Vivian Gornick New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 133 pp., $17.00, hardcover Occasionally a marvelous writer turns her attention to a subject who suits her perfectly. This is the...

A defining moment had arrived for young Frederick Douglass.Before he would go on to fight for slavery's abolition and for human rights with his eloquent words, he was hired out at 15 to Edward Covey, a local Maryland farmer.Covey had a reputation for breaking the...

In the following essay, Gordon analyzes how Stanton and Abigail Scott Duniway portray themselves in their autobiographies.

In the following essay, Wolff compares feminist ideas in writings by Dickinson and Stanton.

In the following essay, Stevenson-Moessner traces the evolution of Stanton's views on women in Christianity.

This essay details the life's work of radical feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is loosely based on the biography by Lois W. Banner.

A look at the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader among the first generation of women's rights activists, upon two important events in the women's suffrage movement: The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; and the passage of the 19th Amendement in 1920, which granted women the right to vote.

Both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Virginia Woolf argued against the suppression of women's rights during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They differed, however, in the ways in which women should be granted the same rights as men. Stanton emphasized the need for women to have a say in government and the right to have a job, while Woolf emphasized the need for women to be educated and to have the freedom with which to make decisions.