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This book is a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It covers her life from her privileged childhood to her achievements as a reformer and historian of woman's suffrage. Griffith emphasizes the importance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress.
The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. In Her Own Right gives us "America's Grand Old Woman" at her radical best. Proceeding from her privileged, unconventional childhood to her marriage to an abolitionist turned political opportunist (with whom she had seven children), to her achievements as a reformer, newspaper editor, popular lecturer, and historian of woman's suffrage, and finally to her ultimate position as a national leader whose wit and matronly appearance disguised her radical ideology, Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author's words, an "unabashedly 'great woman' biography."
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