Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897


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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend for over 50 years. While Elizabeth initially stayed home with her husband and many babies and wrote the speeches, Susan went on the road to bring the message of the women’s rights movement to an often hostile public. When black men were given the vote in 1870, Susan and Elizabeth led the women’s rights establishment of the time to withhold support for a bill that would extend to black men the rights still denied for women of all colors. The two women worked for over 50 years on the women’s rights cause, yet neither lived to see women get the right to vote when it finally came in 1920. (14 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 - Childhood 33:32 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 2 - School days 27:44 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 3 - Girlhood 28:29 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 4 -Life at Peterboro 36:56 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 5 - Our wedding journey 36:55 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 6 - Homeward bound 27:54 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 7 - Motherhood 34:19 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 8 - Boston and Chelsea 28:51 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 9 - The first woman's rights convention 20:42 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 10 - Susan B. Anthony 24:16 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 11 - Susan B. Anthony (continued) 31:49 Read by Becky Miller
Chapter 12 - My first speech before a legislature 24:07 Read by Linette Geisel
Chapter 13 - Reforms and mobs 27:08 Read by Jill
Chapter 14 - Views on marriage and divorce 36:15 Read by Availle
Chapter 15 - Women as patriots 23:40 Read by Theresa Sheridan
Chapter 16 - Pioneer life in Kansas—our newspaper "The Revolution" 28:04 Read by Lynne Carroll
Chapter 17 - Lyceums and lecturers 41:10 Read by Elena
Chapter 18 - Westward ho! 49:31 Read by Theresa Sheridan
Chapter 19 - The spirit of '76 25:49 Read by Rhonda Federman
Chapter 20 - Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage" 33:17 Read by Karen Commins
Chapter 21 - In the south of France 30:29 Read by Theresa Sheridan
Chapter 22 - Reforms and reformers in Great Britain 55:50 Read by Karen Commins
Chapter 23 - Woman and theology 33:11 Read by Availle
Chapter 24 - England and France revisited 27:39 Read by Amanda Friday
Chapter 25 - The International Council of Women 20:10 Read by Linda Velwest
Chapter 26 - My last visit to England 31:26 Read by Grant Hurlock
Chapter 27 - Sixtieth anniversary of the class of 1832—The Woman's Bible 43:52 Read by Wendy Almeida
Chapter 28 - My eightieth birthday 22:32 Read by Linette Geisel