Harriot Stanton Blatch and the winning of woman suffrage

Ellen Carol Dubois

YALE University Press, Oct 1, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 364 pages

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940), daughter of the famous suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, played an essential role in the winning of woman suffrage in the United States. This powerfully written book is both a biography of Harriot Blatch and a new appraisal of the winning and aftermath of the American woman suffrage movement. Harriot Blatch's dedication to the realization of woman suffrage, marked by a concern for social justice and human liberty, closely paralleled that of her mother. However, says Ellen DuBois, Blatch was also very much her own woman. For almost two decades, she put an ocean's distance between her mother and herself, marrying an Englishman, raising a daughter in England, and absorbing the new political currents of Fabian socialism that helped her see the possibilities of a modern women's rights movement. After her mother's death in 1902, Blatch returned to the United States. There she expanded suffragism's class basis, encouraged a more lively activist style, and brought a genuine political sensibility to the movement. And though she devoted herself to enfranchisement, she also envisioned feminism going further to encompass economic power and independence for women as well. DuBois tells the story of Blatch's life and work, in the process reinterpreting the history and politics of the American suffrage movement and the consequences for women's freedom.

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An interesting biography of the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was also an activist (and important to the passage of women's suffrage in NY State).

About the author

Ellen Carol DuBois is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the winning of woman suffrage
• Author: Ellen Carol Dubois
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: YALE University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0300080689, 9780300080681
• Length: 364 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Political Science / Civil Rights