About the Author

Born in Jonestown, New York, in 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in Boston, Seneca Falls, NY, and NYC, where she died at the age of 87. Growing up with the knowledge that girls didn't count for much, for over a half of a century Stanton devoted her life to attaining equality for women. Of her long-standing relationship with Susan B. Anthony, she said, I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them. An instrumental figure in securing women's right to vote, and one of the first to wear bloomers, Stanton was an outspoken proponent of equality in the United States.

Reviews

This is pronounced the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made of mortal pen and tongue--for the full freedom and franchise of women.--Susan B. Anthony

With the power of her mind, her rhetoric, her voice, she would be ballistic if she were here today.' Jill Ker Conway, who was the first woman president of Smith College, told a packed St. John's Episcopal Church on Tuesday, July 10. The evening was a celebration of Stanton who, perhaps even more than her better-known friend Susan B. Anthony, changed the course of history by struggling for more than fifty years with amazing courage and strength, while raising seven children, to make it possible for women to vote. It was a celebration of the hard work and passion of Jan Freeman and her Paris Press, who published the speech and organized the reading, dedicated to Mary Seymour Lucas, to whom Jan Freeman paid a moving tribute. It was a celebration of women, and there were quite a few men in the audience. It was a rich, moving, funny, powerful, enlightening evening.--The Ashfield News

This is pronounced the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made of mortal pen and tongue--for the full freedom and franchise of women.--Susan B. Anthony

Don't be afraid, Elizabeth Cady Stanton seems to be saying in Solitude of Self. To be solitary, she tells her audience, is to explore part of what it means to be human. And in that exploration, she adds, we can often find the miracle of our uniqueness. She suggests that the great aim of a good education, is to prepare us for those times when we have to be alone.--The Advocate (Baton Rouge)