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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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This book will delight readers who love lively memoirs, American history, and women's stories. It suits anyone curious about abolition and the road to women's voting rights.
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- A rebellious childhood shapes a lifelong reformer
- A father's sigh sets her on her path
- Fear of hell gives way to reason
- Antislavery friends give her a school of ideas
- Exclusion in London sparks a plan for action
- Motherhood teaches her to trust her own judgment
- Seneca Falls puts demands on paper
- A friendship with Susan B. Anthony drives the work
- Reform battles teach hard lessons about allies
- Lecture tours, a history, and a Woman's Bible
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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815–1897
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1898
An eleven-year-old girl climbs onto her grieving father's knee and promises to take her brother's place.
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What would make an eleven-year-old girl decide overnight to study Greek and learn to ride a horse? Elizabeth Cady Stanton answers in the early chapters of her memoir.
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- Length
- 129,700 words28 chapters
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- 375 pages566 in large print
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1898by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A rebellious childhood shapes a lifelong reformer
Stanton opens with a claim about children. Each child sees the world through a different mind, she says, and adults rarely remember how much a child feels. She writes down her early memories so that parents may understand the young.
Elizabeth is born in 1815. Her father, Daniel Cady, is a judge who is gentle but so reserved that the children fear him more than they love him. Home is a place of rules. The church preaches hell, and every commandment seems to begin with thou shalt not. One day Elizabeth tells her nurse she is tired of the everlasting no.
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815–1897. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/eighty-years-and-more-reminiscences-1815-1897.
Stanton, E. C. (2026). Eighty years and more; reminiscences 1815–1897. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/eighty-years-and-more-reminiscences-1815-1897 (Original work published 1898)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815–1897. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/eighty-years-and-more-reminiscences-1815-1897.
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What is Eighty Years and More about?
It is Elizabeth Cady Stanton's memoir of her life from 1815 to the 1890s. It covers her childhood in Johnstown, her schooling, marriage, motherhood, and her leading role in the campaign for women's rights.
Who is Susan B. Anthony in this book?
Anthony is Stanton's closest friend and working partner. Stanton dedicates the book to her and devotes two chapters to her life, from her Quaker upbringing and teaching years to her trial for voting in 1872.
Is Eighty Years and More a true story and when was it written?
Yes, it is Stanton's own autobiography, written in her eighties and published in the late 1890s. It draws on her memory, letters, speeches, and diaries, and she speaks directly to the reader throughout.
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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