SOURCE: A review of Eighty Years and More, in The Nation, Vol. LXVI, No. 1714, May 5, 1898, pp. 347-48.

In the following review of Eighty Years and More, the critic comments on Stanton's life and accomplishments.

Mrs. Stanton has had a busy and eventful life, and she tells its story [in Eighty Years and More] in a manner that is engaging, both because of the variety of her experience and because of her satisfaction and delight in the recital. But her narrative is often overweighted with trivial minutiae. She was born November 12, 1815. She represents herself as suffering much from a repressive training, and more from the theological system in which she was brought up; declaring that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of her whole life have been light in comparison with her sufferings in childhood and youth from her religious experience. This was intensified when, upon...