reading! (about a 19th century woman's rights pioneer you should know!)
Been doing lots of interesting research lately. Just finished an amazing book A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights by Sherry Penney and James Livingston. It's a biography of one of the founding leaders of the women's rights movement in the 19th century, and so inspiring and eye-opening. Martha Coffin Wright (sister of Lucretia Mott) was one of the organizers of the first Woman's Rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, was present at the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in the 1830s, and served on in it's business commitee, her home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, she attended or presided at all of the annual National Woman's Rights conventions and many regional ones from 1850 to 1861, she was part of a party of women who went to Washington to speak before the Senate in support of women's rights, she collected signatures for the National Women's Loyal League petition during the Civil War, which helped to end slavery, after the war when the Women's Rights movement split, she sided with the more radical NWSA, attending their annual conventions and becoming a president in the 1870s, but continued to advocate for reconciliation with the more moderate AWSA, who were also friends and colleauges. Over the years she wrote numerous letters and articles championing women's rights and abolition for various publications, and counted Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison,and William Henry Seward, among others, as personal friends or reforming colleauges.
I always thought I knew quite a bit about the history of the women's rights movement in America, and I probably did know a bit more than most people. But Seneca Falls, Stanton and Anthony, and Suffragettes are just the tip of the iceberg. There's so much interesting stuff, so many more brave people, so many important events, and so many untold stories that are worth discovering, and I'm really excited to go find out more now. :)
I always thought I knew quite a bit about the history of the women's rights movement in America, and I probably did know a bit more than most people. But Seneca Falls, Stanton and Anthony, and Suffragettes are just the tip of the iceberg. There's so much interesting stuff, so many more brave people, so many important events, and so many untold stories that are worth discovering, and I'm really excited to go find out more now. :)