Women’s History Origins of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement History of Woman Suffrage Volume I by Stanton Anthony and Gage 1881

Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton

First Edition

Anthony, Susan B., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. History of Woman Suffrage Volume I, published 1881, presents one of the earliest comprehensive documentary histories of the American women’s suffrage movement written by its principal leaders. The work was compiled by three central organizers of nineteenth century women’s rights activism and records the development of the movement from its early reform roots through the years immediately preceding the Civil War. The volume draws heavily on speeches, meeting reports, correspondence, and organizational records assembled by participants in the movement. By documenting the emergence of women’s rights activism in the United States, the book preserves foundational records of the campaign for women’s political equality and the broader reform networks that shaped it.

Anthony, Susan B.; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Gage, Matilda Joslyn. History of Woman Suffrage. Volume I. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881. First edition, first printing. The volume chronicles the development of organized women’s rights activism between 1848 and 1861 while also examining earlier reform movements that influenced suffrage organizers. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the women’s rights movement and the antislavery movement, including profiles of reformers active in both causes such as Lucretia Mott and Lydia Maria Child. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, widely recognized as the first organized gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States, is discussed in detail in Chapter IV. The volume also recounts the development of the political partnership between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a collaboration that shaped national suffrage organizing for decades.

The larger multi volume series eventually expanded to six volumes, published between 1881 and 1922, and became a central reference work for documenting the history of the women’s suffrage movement leading to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. Volume I includes numerous steel engraved portraits of leading activists associated with the early movement. Large octavo. Original publisher’s burgundy cloth binding with gilt spine title. Shelf wear present with light rubbing to the boards and sunning to the spine; interior remains well preserved overall. Overall condition very good.

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