Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World

by Penny Colman

Overview

Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history.

In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed an everlasting and legendary friendship. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements and betrayal by their friends and allies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466850071
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	07/23/2013
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	898,750
File size:	517 KB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Penny Colman is the author of many award-winning nonfiction books for young readers, including Thanksgiving: A True Story; Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women who Made a Difference; and Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial. She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Queens College, The City University of New York, and a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She lives in Englewood, New Jersey, with her family.

Penny Colman is the author of many nonfiction books, including Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts, Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony, and Rosie the Riveter. She lives in Englewood, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

Prologue: Imagine a Time 1

Part 1

1 "Ah, You Should Have Been a Boy!" Elizabeth Cady 1815-1832 7

2 "An Affectionate Family" Susan B. Anthony: 1820-1832 12

3 "Rousing Arguments" Elizabeth Cady: 1833-1839 17

4 "Hardscrabble Times" Susan B. Anthony: 1833-1839 25

5 "A New World" Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 1840-1847 30

6 "Sink or Swim" 40

1840-1847 Susan B. Anthony

7 "To Do and Dare Anything" Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 1848-1850 46

8 "Out of Sorts with the World" 53

Part 2

9 "An 'Intense Attraction'" Elizabeth Susan: 1851-1853 59

10 "Do You Not See?": A Woman's Rights Point of View: 1853-1854 68

11 "Where Are You?": Challenging Times: 1854-1859 78

12 "Nevertheless You Are Right" Controversy: 1860 88

13 "Put on Your Armor and Go Forth!" Women Rally: 1861-1866 97

Part 3

14 "Keep the Thing Stirring": Two Campaigns: 1867 113

15 "Male Versus Female": Division in the Ranks: 1868-1870 122

16 "The Crowning Insult": Another Battle: 1870-1871 132

17 "I Have Been & Gone & Done It!": Taking a Stand: 1871-1872 142

18 "Our Friendship Is Too Long Standing": Gains and Losses: 1873-1879 153

Part 4

19 "We Stood Appalled": Monumental Project: 1880-1883 167

20 "Brace Up and Get Ready": Setbacks: 1884-1889 177

21 "Under Your Thumb" A Mountain of Work: 1890-1895 187

22 "To Stir You and Others Up": Free Expression: 1896-1899 202

23 "Oh, This Awful Hush" 213

The End: 1900-1906

Epilogue 224

Chronology 225

Places to Visit 230

Namesakes 233

Acknowledgments 235

Source Notes 237

Selected Bibliography 245

Webliography 248

Index 249

Editorial Reviews

"Presenting a lively story along with a sound dose of history, it's a unique title that's worth the effort." —School Library Journal

"This thoughtful portrayal of two complex women is further enhanced by comprehensive backmatter, making this an invaluable addition to the literature of suffrage." —Kirkus Reviews

"Colman does a laudable job of tracking the suffrage movement through its rocky nineteenth-century course." —Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books

From the Publisher

Gr 6 Up—These women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1851. Their sympathy for one another was instantaneous, despite their differences—Stanton a married mother of five and Anthony an unmarried career woman—and their association would result in immense changes for American women. Beginning with alternating chapters on her subjects' early years, the author builds clear portraits of both figures, leading to the momentous 1851 meeting. The impact of the abolition movement and the cross over between freedom for slaves and equal treatment for women is clearly delineated. Subsequent chapters deal with their joint history at the tiller of the suffrage movement. Building the characters of the individuals through their experiences and their own words, Colman has created nuanced pictures of both Stanton and Anthony, as well as of the sociopolitical climate in which they functioned. Readers will be surprised by the limits on women's rights and informed as to the nearly martial nature of the (still ongoing) struggle to attain equality. Including black-and-white photographs of major figures of the time, an epilogue, a detailed chronology, a list of places to visit, source notes, and a lengthy bibliography, this volume will take a bit of promotion to ensure circulation. Presenting a lively story along with a sound dose of history, it's a unique title that's worth the effort.—Ann Welton, Helen B. Stafford Elementary, Tacoma, WA

School Library Journal

Two of the most iconic figures in women's history were linked in deep friendship as well as commitment to the most contentious causes in 19th-century America: antislavery and woman suffrage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a married mother of four boys at the time they met, and Susan B. Anthony, an unmarried schoolteacher, formed a friendship that lasted until Elizabeth's death more than 50 years later. Their tireless work, including advocacy, speeches, organizing and writing, placed them at the center of tumultuous events in the middle of the 19th century. They were associates of other prominent activists, such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and Lucretia Mott. This lively, very readable narrative paints a picture that depicts each woman's path to activism and demonstrates that these passionate figures often disagreed with each other and their fellow activists over strategy, allies, direction for the movement—even rhetoric. The tenor of the times is on full display as the struggle to extend rights to women is resisted by most institutions in society. Conflicts within the movement are discussed, although the long-term breach that occurred when Stanton and Anthony opposed the amendment granting the right to vote to freedmen because women of all races were denied is not fully explored.

This thoughtful portrayal of two complex women is further enhanced by comprehensive backmatter, making this an invaluable addition to the literature of suffrage. (Nonfiction. 12 & up)

Kirkus Reviews

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