Elizabeth Cady Stanton Original Article on Scientist John Tyndall and her Upcoming "Woman's Bible", 1894

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Periodical

[Women Suffrage][Feminism and Women's Rights] Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "John Tyndall" published in The Freethinkers' Magazine. Tyndall Memorial Number. Vol XIL No. 3. Buffalo, NY: H.L. Green, March 1894. First Edition of this essay by Stanton. ; 216 pages plus 6 pages. ads for books sold by The Freethinkers' Magazine, original gray wrappers with TOC on front cover with Mrs. Stanton's essay noted as appearing on p. 156 (-161), stapled, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) suffragist, journalist and lecturer, worked all of her life for the advancement of women's rights, becoming increasingly more radical in the last third of her life. Perhaps most radical was the publication - just one year after this article was written of THE WOMAN'S BIBLE,(1895) which challenged organized religion by including feminist interpretations ( and rewrites) of many passages. Mrs. Stanton's religious rebellion started as early as 1855, as she pursued the works of Thomas Paine and the noted freethinker Col. Roger G Ingersoll (who later became her good friend). The subject of Mrs. Stanton's essay and, indeed, the entire issue of The Freethinkers' Magazine is the Irish born English scientist and educator John Tyndall (1820-1893). Stanton stakes out the rightness of Tyndall receiving such homage by noting the history of his ancestor who translated into the English the Pentateuch and the New Testament and was subsequently tortured and killed for this act. Stanton is full of praise for Tyndall noting his freethinking religious views and the resulting trouble for him (Tyndall's Prayer Test and his famous Belfast address). No doubt Stanton was thinking of the imminent publication of her WOMAN'S BIBLE, knowing the furor it would cause. In any case, this is an interesting essay by Stanton that we have not seen reproduced anywhere else. Chipped at spine ends and 2 small closed tear, else very good condition.

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