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What does it take to keep demanding a voice when your country refuses to hear you?
In Susan B. Anthony, Alma Lutz follows a village schoolteacher into the long struggle for women's rights. The story begins in a Quaker home in Massachusetts, where a daughter learns that she counts. Temperance work and the fight against slavery draw Anthony into public life, where conviction must become the practical work of organizing, speaking, and raising money.
Her partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton brings shared purpose to a campaign marked by quarrels and setbacks. When Anthony votes in 1872, she faces arrest and trial. Lutz, herself a supporter of women's rights, tells this life with warmth and admiration, showing the personal cost of persistence and the effort behind a public demand for equal political rights.
What you’ll discover
- A conscience takes root Enter the Quaker childhood that shapes Anthony's sense of her own worth.
- The work behind reform Follow a teacher becoming a lecturer, organizer, editor, and fundraiser for change.
- A partnership with purpose Meet Elizabeth Cady Stanton and explore the lifelong partnership at the campaign's heart.
- A vote brings arrest See Anthony test her claim that citizenship already gives women the right to vote.
- Persistence through setbacks Discover the quarrels and divisions that make the struggle harder, without stopping her work.
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For readers who love the history of reform movements, stories of how American women won a political voice, and life stories built on persistence.
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- A Quaker home gives her a conscience
- Temperance work teaches her to organize
- A lifelong partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- After the war the movement splits
- She votes, is arrested, and is put on trial
- The long work of her later years
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Susan B. Anthony
by Alma Lutz · 1959
A Quaker schoolteacher becomes an organizer in the campaign for women's right to vote.
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Susan B. Anthony spent more than fifty years asking one plain question of her country: why should half its citizens have no vote?
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A Quaker home gives her a conscience
Susan Brownell Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel Anthony, ran a cotton mill, and her family belonged to the Quakers. The Quakers of that time held that every person carries an inner light, and they did not keep women silent in their meetings. That belief shaped the girl more than any lesson in a schoolroom.
Daniel Anthony was strict about plain living, but he also wanted his daughters educated. When a local teacher would not teach his daughter the harder parts of arithmetic, he arranged for her to learn elsewhere. The family later moved to New York State, and in time settled near Rochester. Rochester would stay her home for the rest of her life.
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What is the Susan B. Anthony biography by Alma Lutz about?
It tells the life of Susan B. Anthony, from her Quaker childhood through her work in temperance, antislavery and women's suffrage. It covers her partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, her arrest for voting in 1872 and her years leading the movement.
Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested?
She was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election in Rochester, New York, when women could not legally vote. She argued that the Fourteenth Amendment protected her right. She was tried in 1873 and fined one hundred dollars, which she refused to pay.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony?
Stanton was her closest colleague and friend in the suffrage cause. They met in 1851. Stanton usually wrote the speeches and arguments while Anthony organized, traveled and lectured. Together they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
The author
Alma Lutz
1890–1973 · American suffragist and biographer
Alma Lutz was an American biographer and historian of the women's rights movement, devoted to documenting the lives of the suffrage pioneers. Her study of Susan B. Anthony follows the career of the movement's most tireless organizer and campaigner.
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