Eighty Years and More

Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781982136253
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The autobiography of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton—published for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage—including an updated introduction and afterword from noted scholars of women's history Ellen Carol DuBois and Ann D. Gordon. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897, is one of the great American autobiographies. There is really no other American woman's autobiography in the nineteenth century that comes near it in relevance, excellence, and historical significance.In 1848, thirty-three-year-old Stanton and four others organized the first major women's rights meeting in American history. Together with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the cause, she led the campaign for women's legal rights, most prominently woman suffrage, for the rest of the century. In those years, Stanton was the movement's spokeswoman, theorist, and its visionary. In addition to her suffrage activism, she was a pioneering advocate of women's reproductive freedom, and a ceaseless critic of religious misogyny. As the mother of seven, she also had pronounced opinions on women's domestic responsibilities, especially on raising children.In Eighty Years and More, Stanton reminisces about dramatic moments in the history of woman suffrage, about her personal challenges and triumphs, and about the women and men she met in her travels around the United States and abroad.Stanton's writing retains its vigor, intelligence, and wit. Much of what she had to say about women, their lives, their frustrations, their aspirations and their possibilities, remains relevant and moving today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Preface
• List of Portraits
• Chapter I: Childhood
• Chapter II: School Days
• Chapter III: Girlhood
• Chapter IV: Life at Peterboro
• Chapter V: Our Wedding Journey
• Chapter VI: Homeward Bound
• Chapter VII: Motherhood
• Chapter VIII: Boston and Chelsea
• Chapter IX: The First Woman’s Rights Convention
• Chapter X: Susan B. Anthony
• 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 XVIII: Westward Ho!
• 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
• Afterword
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index of Names
• Copyright