Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

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The autobiography of womens rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stantonpublished for the 100th anniversary of womens suffrageincluding an updated introduction and afterword from noted scholars of womens history Ellen Carol DuBois and Ann D. Gordon.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 18151897, is one of the great American autobiographies. There is really no other American womans 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 womens rights meeting in American history. Together with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the cause, she led the campaign for womens legal rights, most prominently woman suffrage, for the rest of the century. In those years, Stanton was the movements spokeswoman, theorist, and its visionary. In addition to her suffrage activism, she was a pioneering advocate of womens reproductive freedom, and a ceaseless critic of religious misogyny. As the mother of seven, she also had pronounced opinions on womens 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.

Stantons 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.

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Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department of UCLA.She is the author of numerous books on the history of woman suffrage in the US. She is the coauthor, with Lynn Dumenil, of the leading textbook in US womens history,Through Womens Eyes: An American History with Documentsand coeditor, with Vicki Ruiz, ofUnequal Sisters: In Inclusive Reader in USWomens History.

Ann D. Gordon, is Research Professor Emerita of history at Rutgers University and editor of the six-volumeSelected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.She has written numerous articles on womens history, biography, and historical editing and also compiled a collection of essays by scholars of black history,African American Women and the Vote, 18371965. In advance of the Nineteenth Amendment centennial, she served as a historical advisor to the National Archives for its exhibit Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote.