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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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Readers drawn to American history, biography and struggles for rights will enjoy this book. It suits those curious about abolition, temperance, labor and voting, and those who love portraits of friendship and courage.
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- Equality begins with questions at home
- Being silenced pushes her to organize
- Property rights make reform possible
- Petitions give women a political voice
- Voting rights divide trusted allies
- A wider vision carries real costs
- Casting a ballot tests the law
- Repeated defeats still build a movement
- Rights are won through many hands
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Susan B. Anthony
by Alma Lutz · 1959
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony enters a Rochester barbershop and asks to register as a voter.
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What happens when a woman walks into a barbershop in 1872 and asks to be put on the voting list? In Rochester, New York, the inspectors argue, then give way.
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- 1959by Alma Lutz
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A Quaker mill girl asks why
Susan B. Anthony is born on February 15, 1820, near Adams, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel Anthony, is a Quaker who builds a cotton mill beside a brook. Her mother cooks and cleans for eleven millworkers while raising three small daughters.
At eleven, Susan watches a skilled weaver fix tangled yarn again and again, while a man is the overseer. She asks her father why the weaver is not made overseer. He says it would never do to have a woman in that job, and Susan is not satisfied.
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Lutz, Alma. Susan B. Anthony. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/susan-b-anthony.
Lutz, A. (2026). Susan B. Anthony. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/susan-b-anthony (Original work published 1959)
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What is Susan B. Anthony by Alma Lutz about?
It tells the life of the suffrage pioneer from her Quaker childhood in Massachusetts to her final years in Rochester. It covers her work in temperance, antislavery, labor and women's rights, and her long campaign for the vote.
Who are the main people in the book besides Anthony?
The most important are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, her closest friend and partner, and Lucy Stone, a rival. Others include Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt and her sister Mary.
Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested?
In November 1872 she registered and voted in Rochester, New York, to test whether the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the vote. She was charged with voting illegally, tried in 1873, and fined one hundred dollars, which she refused to pay.
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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