SOURCE: "The Political Is the Personal: Two Autobiographies of Woman Suffragists," in American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory, edited by Margo Culley, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, pp. 111-27.
In the essay below, Gordon compares the autobiographies of Abigail Scott Duniway and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and argues that both suffragists used their autobiographies to further their political goals.
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