Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences (Women's Rights and Liberation) [Hardcover]

Theodore Stanton (Author), Harriot Stanton Blatch (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0405001150 | ISBN-13: 978-0405001154 | Publication Date: June 1977

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... homely incidents we retain, because, as she herself declares in the letter of June 10, 1856: "It is not in vain that in myself I have experienced all the wearisome cares to which woman in her best estate is subject." The average housekeeper will learn in these volumes how one woman met the average fate. In her early training and environment, however, Elizabeth Cady Stanton did not have the ordinary experience. She married late for her time. Her mother had married at sixteen, while she had passed her twenty-fifth birthday before the desolating effect of the usual domestic round gripped her life. She had already acquired through her training at two exceptionally good schools, the Johnstown Academy and the Emma Willard Seminary at Troy, well-established, studious habits. Following this formal education came a long period of serious reading in her father's law office. And from early childhood to the time of her marriage in 1840, she enjoyed the immense advantage of the close companionship of two remarkable men--first, the Rev. Dr. Hosack, and later, Edward Bayard. Our earliest and most vivid memory of our mother is of her at work at her desk, except in the evening, when she devoted herself to games and reading in the family circle. She never seemed hurried, never "flew from one thing to another"--her days were planned. With all her vivacity she gave the impression of poise and orderliness. When her children were young shei fitted into their napping time and into the night hours, her literary labors. "Good-night" occurs at the end of most of the letters of this period of early motherhood. There is a characteristic feature of all this nocturnal correspondence--the chirography does not show a touch of carelessness. Reading in bed was sometimes indulged in, but letters ...

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub (June 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0405001150
• ISBN-13: 978-0405001154
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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