Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Advice to a Young Woman: Be Independent – Get An Education and Support Yourself

A unique document, signed on opposing album pages by both of the suffragette leaders, stating their feelings about necessary steps for young women as they get older

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Susan B. Anthony: “Pecuniary independence gives moral power; therefore get money.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Every girl should be educated for some trade, or profession.”

In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, NY. They would spend the next several decades together fighting for the rights of women,...

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Advice to a Young Woman: Be Independent – Get An Education and Support Yourself

A unique document, signed on opposing album pages by both of the suffragette leaders, stating their feelings about necessary steps for young women as they get older

Susan B. Anthony: “Pecuniary independence gives moral power; therefore get money.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Every girl should be educated for some trade, or profession.”

In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, NY. They would spend the next several decades together fighting for the rights of women, Anthony as organizer and tactician and Stanton as writer and orator. On Stanton’s death, Anthony related that Stanton had “forged the thunderbolts” that she had fired. Theirs is one of the more consequential relationships of the 19th century and images of them together are synonymous with the women’s suffrage movement.

Their goal was not simply to secure women equal rights, but to elevate the status of women and the women pioneers of their movement to equal status as male historical figures. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton conceived of a monumental project memorializing their movement and its early pioneers. This became their magnum opus, the 4 volume “The History of Woman Suffrage.” Volumes 1 & 2 were published in 1881. Volume 3 was published in 1886.

In the meantime, campaigning for women, Anthony and Stanton met a young girl, Fannie Hobson, born in 1858 and 20 at the time she meet these famous women. She had an autograph book that she used to get the autographs of local politicians and family members, but she met others.

Autograph quotation signed, Susan B. Anthony, West Union, January 18, 1878, “Pecuniary independence gives moral power; therefore get money.”

Autograph quotation signed, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York, March 29, 1878, “Every girl should be educated for some trade, or profession.”

In addition they met a vice president. Autograph quotation signed, Schuyler Colfax, West Union. “‘Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty.’ Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech”. Here he quotes one of the greatest speeches ever given.

William Taylor was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884. Taylor University, a Christian college in Indiana, carries his name. Autograph quotation signed, January 23, 1880. “Issikienissivieteryo, the name given me by the Kaffers of Africa signifying a flaming torch.”

We do not recall seeing another such books with the autographs of both women on pages facing each other.

Other signatories include: Theodore Tilton, American newspaper editor, poet and abolitionist; and Samuel Kirkwood, Iowa’s American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

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