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What turns the frustrations of daily life into a lifelong fight for women’s rights?
In Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815–1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton looks back on the experiences that shape her convictions. Her story begins in a lawyer’s household in Johnstown, New York, and moves through school, marriage and motherhood. Along the way, she confronts the limits placed on women’s education, property and political voice.
Stanton brings you inside the early American women’s rights movement, from Seneca Falls to her partnership with Susan B. Anthony. But this is more than a record of public meetings and demands. Humor, firm opinions and small scenes of daily life reveal a woman turning personal frustration into a public cause, while speaking plainly even when her views cost her friends.
What you’ll discover
- A judge’s daughter Enter the household where Stanton first encounters the law’s unequal treatment of women.
- Schooling beyond the limits Share her pride and irritation as education opens doors and exposes restrictions.
- The road to Seneca Falls Follow the personal experiences behind her role in the fight for women’s rights.
- A friendship in reform Get to know Susan B. Anthony through Stanton’s account of their friendship and shared work.
- A voice that challenges Meet a reformer whose humor and frank opinions reach beyond politics into faith and old age.
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For readers who love memoirs with a strong voice, the early fight for the women's vote, and American history told by a person who lived it.
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- A judge's daughter learns what law denies women
- Schooling opened doors and exposed limits
- Marriage, abolition and a rebuff in London
- Seneca Falls
- A partnership with Susan B. Anthony
- Her own view of reform, faith and old age
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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815–1897
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1898
A judge's daughter sees what law denies women and turns private frustration into a public demand for rights.
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Eighty Years and More is the memoir of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the founders of the American movement for women's rights. She published it in 1898, when she was in her eighties, and it looks back over the years from her birth in 1815 to 1897.
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A judge's daughter learns what law denies women
Elizabeth Cady was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her father, Daniel Cady, was a respected lawyer and later a judge, and his office was part of the household world she grew up in. She tells of how she listened as a girl while clients described their troubles. Some of them were women whose property and children were controlled by husbands, and the law gave them little protection.
The young Elizabeth took these stories seriously. She recalls wanting to cut the offending laws out of her father's law books. Her father explained that a better way was to change the laws, and that thought stayed with her for life. She saw that the law treated wives and daughters differently, and she asked why.
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What is Eighty Years and More about?
It is Elizabeth Cady Stanton's autobiography. She tells of her childhood in New York, her schooling, her marriage, her work against slavery and for women's rights, and her friendships, including the one with Susan B. Anthony.
When was Eighty Years and More written?
Stanton published it in 1898, near the end of her life. It is a true account written from memory, covering the years from her birth in 1815 to 1897.
What happened at Seneca Falls in 1848?
Stanton, Lucretia Mott and others held a two day convention on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York. Its declaration and discussions called for equal treatment and the right to vote.
The author
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902 · American suffragist and writer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist and social reformer, a principal organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and one of the founding voices of the women's rights movement. Eighty Years and More is her candid, spirited autobiography.
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