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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

<h2>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2> <h2>MY EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY.</h2> Without my knowledge or consent, my lifelong friend, Susan B. Anthony, who always seems to appreciate homage tendered to me more highly than even to herself, made arrangements for the celebration of my eightieth birthday, on the 12th day of November, 1895. She preferred that this celebration should be conducted by the National Council of Women, composed of a large number of organizations representing every department of woman's labor, though, as the enfranchisement of woman had been my special life work, it would have been more appropriate if the celebration had been under the auspices of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, President of the National Council of Women, assumed the financial responsibility and the extensive correspondence involved, and with rare tact, perseverance, and executive ability made the celebration a complete success. In describing this occasion I cannot do better than to reproduce, in part, Mrs. Dickinson's account, published in The Arena: "In the month of June, 1895, the National Council of Women issued the following invitation: "'Believing that the progress made by women in the last half century may be promoted by a more general notice of their achievements, we propose to hold, in New York city, a convention for this purpose. As an appropriate time for such a celebration, the eightieth birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been chosen. Her half century of pioneer work for the rights of women makes her name an inspiration for such an occasion and her life a fitting object for the homage of all women. "'This National Council is composed of twenty organizations; these and all other societies interested are invited to co-operate in grateful recognition of the debt the present generation owes to the pioneers of the past. From their interest in the enfranchisement of women, the influence of Mrs. Stanton and her coadjutor, Miss Anthony, has permeated all departments of progress and made them a common center round which all interested in woman's higher development may gather.' "To this invitation came responses, from the Old World and the New, expressing sympathy with the proposed celebration, which was intended to emphasize a great principle by showing the loftiness of character that had resulted from its embodiment in a unique personality. The world naturally thinks of the personality before it thinks of the principle. It has, at least, so much unconscious courtesy left as to honor a noble woman, even when failing to rightly apprehend a noble cause. To afford this feeling its proper expression, to render more tangible all vague sympathy, to crystallize the growing sentiment in favor of human freedom, to give youth the opportunity to reverence the glory of age, to give hearts their utterances in word and song was perhaps the most popular purpose of the reunion. In other words, it gave an opportunity for those who revered Mrs. Stanton as a queen among women to show their reverence, and to recognize the work her life had wrought, and to see in it an epitome of the progress of a century. "The celebration was also an illustration of the distinctive idea of the National Council of Women, which aims to give recognition to all human effort without demanding uniformity of opinion as a basis of co-operation. It claims to act upon a unity of service, notwithstanding differences of creed and methods. The things that separate, shrank back into the shadows where they belong, and all hearts brave enough to think, and tender enough to feel, found it easy to unite in homage to a life which had known a half century of struggle to lift humanity from bondage and womanhood from shame. "This reunion was the first general recognition of the debt the present owes to the past. It was the first effort to show the extent to which later development has been inspired and made possible by the freedom to think and work claimed in that earlier time by women like Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton, and many others whose names stand as synonyms of noble service for the race. To those who looked at the reunion from this point of view it could not fail of inspiration. "For the followers in lines of philanthropic work to look in the faces and hear the voices of women like Clara Barton and Mary Livermore; for the multitude enlisted in the crowded ranks of literature to feel in the living presence, what literature owes to women like Julia Ward Howe; for the white ribbon army to turn from its one great leader of to-day whose light, spreading to the horizon, does not obscure or dim the glory of the crusade leaders of the past; for art lovers and art students to call to mind sculptors like Harriet Hosmer and Anna Whitney, and remember the days when art was a sealed book to women; for the followers of the truly divine art of healing to honor the Blackwell sisters and the memory of Mme. Clemence Lozier; for the mercy of surgery to reveal itself in the face of Dr. Cushier, who has proved for us that heart of pity and hand of skill need never be divorced; for women lifting their eyes to meet the face of Phebe A. Hanaford and Anna Shaw and other women who to-day in the pulpit, as well as out of it, may use a woman's right to minister to needy souls; for the ofttime sufferers from unrighteous law to welcome women lawyers; for the throng of working women to read backward through the story of four hundred industries to their beginning in the 'four,' and remember that each new door had opened because some women toiled and strove; for all these the exercises were a part of a great thanksgiving paean, each phase of progress striking its own chord, and finding each its echo in the hearts that held it dear. "To the student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the times, there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details. Yet as a pageant only it was a most inspiring sight, and one truly worthy of a queen. Indeed as we run the mind back over the pages of history, what queen came to a more triumphant throne in the hearts of a grateful people? What woman ever before sat silver-crowned, canopied with flowers, surrounded not by servile followers but by men and women who brought to her court the grandest service they had wrought, their best thought crystallized in speech and song. Greater than any triumphal procession that ever marked a royal passage through a kingdom was it to know that in a score or more of cities, in many a village church on that same night festive fires were lighted, and the throng kept holiday, bringing for tribute not gold and gems but noblest aspirations, truest gratitude, and highest ideals for the nation and the race. "The great meeting was but one link in a chain; yet with its thousands of welcoming faces, with its eloquence of words, with its offering of sweetest song from the children of a race that once was bound but now is free, with its pictured glimpses of the old time and the new flashing out upon the night, with the home voices offering welcome and gratitude and love, with numberless greetings, from the great, true, brave souls of many lands, it was indeed a wonderful tribute, worthy of the great warm heart of a nation that offered it, and worthy of the woman so revered. "It seemed fitting that Mme. Antoinette Sterling, who, twenty years ago, took her wonderful voice away to England, where it won for her a unique place in the hearts of the nation, should, on returning to her country, give her first service to the womanhood of her native land. 'I am coming a week earlier,' so she had written, 'that my first work in my own beloved America may be done for women. I am coming as a woman and not as an artist, and because I so glory in that which the women of my country have achieved.' So when she sang out of her heart, 'O rest in the Lord; wait patiently for him!' no marvel that it seemed to lift all listening hearts to a recognition of the divine secret and source of power for all work. "One charming feature of the entertainment was a series of pictures called 'Then and Now,' each illustrating the change in woman's condition during the last fifty years. And after this, upon the dimness there shone out, one after another, the names of noble women like Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, Emma Willard, and many others who have passed away. Upon the shadows and the silence broke Mme. Sterling's voice in Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar.' And when this was over, as with one voice, the whole audience sang softly 'Auld Lang Syne.' "And last but not least should be mentioned the greetings that poured in a shower of telegrams and letters from every section of the country, and many from over the sea. These expressions, not only of personal congratulation for Mrs. Stanton, but utterances of gladness for the progress in woman's life and thought, for the conditions, already so much better than in the past, and for the hope for the future, would make of themselves a most interesting and wonderful chapter. Among them may be mentioned letters from Lord and Lady Aberdeen, from Lady Henry Somerset and Frances E. Willard, from Canon Wilberforce, and many others, including an address from thirty members of the family of John Bright, headed by his brother, the Right Honorable Jacob Bright; a beautifully engrossed address, on parchment, from the National Woman Suffrage Society of Scotland, an address from the London Women's Franchise League, and a cablegram from the Bristol Women's Liberal Association; a letter from the Women's Rights Society of Finland, signed by its president, Baroness Gripenberg of Helsingfors; telegrams from the California Suffrage Pioneers; and others from the Chicago Woman's Club, from the Toledo and Ohio Woman's Suffrage Society, from the son of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing, and a telegram and letter from citizens and societies of Seneca Falls, New York, accompanied with flowers and many handsome pieces of silver from the different societies. There were also letters from Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, ex-minister to Turkey, Miss Ellen Terry, and scores of others. An address was received from the Women's Association of Utah, accompanied by a beautiful onyx and silver ballot box; and from the Shaker women of Mount Lebanon came an ode; a solid silver loving cup from the New York City Suffrage League, presented on the platform with a few appropriate words by its President, Mrs. Devereux Blake. "Hundreds of organizations and societies, both in this country and abroad, wished to have their names placed on record as in sympathy with the movement. Many organizations were present in a body, and one was reminded, by the variety and beauty of the decorations of their boxes, of the Venetian Carnival, as the occupants gazed down from amid the silken banners and the flowers, upon the throng below. The whole occasion was indeed a unique festival, unique in its presentation, as well as in its purpose, plan, character, and spirit. No woman present could fail to be impressed with what we owe to the women of the past, and especially to this one woman who was the honored guest of the occasion. And no young woman could desire to forget the picture of this aged form as, leaning upon her staff, Mrs. Stanton spoke to the great audience of over six thousand, as she had spoken hundreds of times before in legislative halls, and whenever her word could influence the popular sentiment in favor of justice for all mankind." My birthday celebration, with all the testimonials of love and friendship I received, was an occasion of such serious thought and deep feeling as I had never before experienced. Having been accustomed for half a century to blame rather than praise, I was surprised with such a manifestation of approval; I could endure any amount of severe criticism with complacency, but such an outpouring of homage and affection stirred me profoundly. To calm myself during that week of excitement, I thought many times of Michelet's wise motto, "Let the weal and woe of humanity be everything to you, their praise and blame of no effect; be not puffed up with the one nor cast down with the other." Naturally at such a time I reviewed my life, its march and battle on the highways of experience, and counted its defeats and victories. I remembered when a few women called the first convention to discuss their disabilities, that our conservative friends said: "You have made a great mistake, you will be laughed at from Maine to Texas and beyond the sea; God has set the bounds of woman's sphere and she should be satisfied with her position." Their prophecy was more than realized; we were unsparingly ridiculed by the press and pulpit both in England and America. But now many conventions are held each year in both countries to discuss the same ideas; social customs have changed; laws have been modified; municipal suffrage has been granted to women in England and some of her colonies; school suffrage has been granted to women in half of our States, municipal suffrage in Kansas, and full suffrage in four States of the Union. Thus the principle scouted in 1848 was accepted in England in 1870, and since then, year by year, it has slowly progressed in America until the fourth star shone out on our flag in 1896, and Idaho enfranchised her women! That first convention, considered a "grave mistake" in 1848, is now referred to as "a grand step in progress." My next mistake was when, as president of the New York State Woman's Temperance Association, I demanded the passage of a statute allowing wives an absolute divorce for the brutality and intemperance of their husbands. I addressed the Legislature of New York a few years later when a similar bill was pending, and also large audiences in several of our chief cities, and for this I was severely denounced. To-day fugitives from such unholy ties can secure freedom in many of the Western States, and enlightened public sentiment sustains mothers in refusing to hand down an appetite fraught with so many evil consequences. This, also called a "mistake" in 1860, was regarded as a "step in progress" a few years later. Again, I urged my coadjutors by speeches, letters, and resolutions, as a means of widespread agitation, to make the same demands of the Church that we had already made of the State. They objected, saying, "That is too revolutionary, an attack on the Church would injure the suffrage movement." But I steadily made the demand, as opportunity offered, that women be ordained to preach the Gospel and to fill the offices as elders, deacons, and trustees. A few years later some of these suggestions were accepted. Some churches did ordain women as pastors over congregations of their own, others elected women deaconesses, and a few churches allowed women, as delegates, to sit in their conferences. Thus this demand was in a measure honored and another "step in progress" taken. In 1882 I tried to organize a committee to consider the status of women in the Bible, and the claim that the Hebrew Writings were the result of divine inspiration. It was thought very presumptuous for women not learned in languages and ecclesiastical history to undertake such work. But as we merely proposed to comment on what was said of women in plain English, and found these texts composed only one-tenth of the Old and New Testaments, it did not seem to me a difficult or dangerous undertaking. However, when Part I. of "The Woman's Bible" was published, again there was a general disapproval by press and pulpit, and even by women themselves, expressed in resolutions in suffrage and temperance conventions. Like other "mistakes," this too, in due time, will be regarded as "a step in progress." Such experiences have given me confidence in my judgment, and patience with the opposition of my coadjutors, with whom on so many points I disagree. It requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage, temperance legislation, liberal divorce laws, or for women to fill church offices—these battles have been fought and won and the principle governing these demands conceded. But it still requires courage to question the divine inspiration of the Hebrew Writings as to the position of woman. Why should the myths, fables, and allegories of the Hebrews be held more sacred than those of the Assyrians and Egyptians, from whose literature most of them were derived? Seeing that the religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences, I feel impelled to reiterate my demands for justice, liberty, and equality in the Church as well as in the State. The birthday celebration was to me more than a beautiful pageant; more than a personal tribute. It was the dawn of a new day for the Mothers of the Race! The harmonious co-operation of so many different organizations, with divers interests and opinions, in one grand jubilee was, indeed, a heavenly vision of peace and hope; a prophecy that with the exaltation of Womanhood would come new Life, Light, and Liberty to all mankind. <hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>INDEX OF NAMES.</h2> Aberdeen, Lord and Lady, 463 Addington, Laura, 282 Albert, Prince, 398 Alcott, A. Bronson, 127, 132, 134, 260, 449 Alcott, Louisa M., 157 Allison, Miss, 315, 316 Amberly, Lord and Lady, 430 Ames, Mary Clemmer, 263 Anderson, Dr. Garrett, 371 André, Major John, 3 Andrews, Governor John A., 236 Anthony, Daniel, 157, 159, 193 Anthony, Senator Henry B., 330 Anthony, Lucy, 193 Anthony, Mary, 182, 193, 389, 434 Anthony, Susan B., 155, 157, 160-165, 167, 169-184, 187, 189, 190, 192-194, 203,210, 212-214, 219, 226, 227, 236, 337, 242 243, 245, 253, 254, 256-258, 265, 267, 271,283, 290, 292, 293, 297, 299, 306, 309, 312,313, 317, 323, 326, 330, 332, 334-337, 351,364-366, 368, 373-375, 378, 380, 385, 387,389, 392, 411-414, 420, 433, 434, 449, 452,458-459 Arnold, General Benedict, 3 Arnold, Matthew, 260, 353 Astor, John Jacob, 454 Auchet, Hubertine, 177 Austin, Dr. Harriet N., 203 Ayer, Mrs. J.C., 401 Backus, Wealthea, 67 Bagley, Governor, 303, 305 Bagley, Mrs., 303, 401 Baird, General, 52, 298 Baldwin, Elizabeth McMartin, 380 Balgarnie, Miss, 394 Banning, Ella B., 277 Banning, William L., 276, 277 Barclay, Cornelia, 68 Barrau, Caroline de, 394 Bartlett, Paul, 404 Barton, Clara, 157, 460 Bascom, Mr., 144 Bascora, Mary, 153 Bayard, Dr. Edward, 26, 97, 14, 45, 46 Bayard, Henry, 8, 26, 27, 28, 32, 34 Bayard, Thomas F., 8 Bayard, Tryphena Cady, 26, 144, 428 Beach, Myron, 279 Beaman, Rev. Dr., 41 Becker, Lydia, 352, 356, 368, 373, 374, 408 Beecher, Catharine, 264 Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 226, 260 Bellamy, Edward, 135 Bellows, Rev. Henry, 240, 257 Benedict, Lewis, 216 Bently, Judge, 265 Berry, Mme., 343 Berry, Marguerite, 331 Berry, Mrs., 282 Bertaux, Mme. Léon, 403 Besant, Annie, 353, 369 Bickerdyke, Mother, 253 Biddle, Chapman, 64 Biddle, George, 67 Biggs, Caroline, 364, 373, 374, 394, 408 Bigelow, John, 401 Bigelow, Mrs. John, 401 Bingham, John A., 289 Bird, Frank W., 330 Birney, James Gr., 54, 73-76, 79, 83, 85,89 103, 107 Bjornson, Bjornstjorne, 401 Blackburn, Miss, 408 Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 243, 461 Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, 157, 352, 374, 461 Blackwell, H.B., 245 Blaine, Senator James G., 379, 380, 401 Blaine, Mrs. James G., 401 Blair, Senator Henry W., 420 Blake, Lillie Devereux, 312, 378, 383, 387, 448, 453, 464 Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 325, 336, 337, 339, 363, 390-392, 394, 395, 397, 410, 418, 420-422, 429, 431, 451 Blatch, Nora Stanton, 374, 394, 426, 428, 429 Blatch, William H., 348, 367, 370, 389 Blavatsky, Mme., 377 Bloomer, Amelia, 163, 200, 201 Bogelot, Isabella, 400 Bogue, Rev. Dr., 152 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 95, 96, 266, 277 Botta, Anne Lynch, 440 Boucherett, Jessie, 264, 357 Bowles, Samuel, 127 Bradburn, George, 81 Bradlaugh, Hon. Charles, M, P., 260, 262, 360, 366, 369 Bradwell, Myra, 317 Bright, Hon. Jacob, M.P., 178, 358, 373, 374, 463 Bright, Mrs. Jacob, 358, 368, 372-374, 394, 423, 429 Bright, Hon. John, M.P., 353, 357, 365, 366, 372, 463 Broomall, John M., 243, 244 Brougham, Henry, Lord, 89, 217, 333 Brown, Antoinette L., 189, 194, 218, 219 Brown, John, 7, 54, 245 Brown, Olympia, 245 Brown, Mr., 282 Browne, Sir Thomas, M.D., 406 Browning, Robert, 360 Brownson, Orestes A., 133 Bryan, William J.. 456 Bryant, Miss, 401 Bryant, William Cullen, 418 Bullard, Laura Curtis, 182, 341, 388 Burlingame, Anson, 197 Burleigh, Celia, 293 Burleigh, Mrs. William, 203 Burnet, Rev. J., 80 Burr, Frances Ellen, 453 Burroughs, Herbert, 429 Busbey, L. White, 401 Bushnell, Horace, 271 Butler, General Benjamin F., 300 Butler, Josephine, 352, 367 Byron, Lady, 80, 88 Byron, Lord, 88 Cabot, Frederick, 134, 327, 392, 449 Cady, Judge Daniel, 2, 3, 51, 89 Cady, Eleazer, 17, 18 Cady, Margaret Livingston, 3, 89 Caird, Mona, 409 Cameron, Judge Hugh, 273 Carlisle, Lora and Lady, 430 Carlyle, Thomas, 363 Carnegie, Andrew, 395 Carroll, Anna, 242 Cary, Alice, 157, 173, 263, 264 Cary, Phoebe, 157, 173, 263, 264 Channing, Rev. Dr. William Ellery, 464 Channing, Dr. William F., 327, 330, Channing, Rev. William Henry, 134, 135, 144, 150, 155, 159, 161, 187, 189, 191, 329, 351, 449, 464 Chant, Ormiston, 408 Chapman, Maria, 80, 127, 129 Chase, William, 134 Cheever, Rev. George B., 54, 237 Child, Lydia Maria, 80, 127, 277 Choate, Joseph H., 451 Christie, Margaret, 47 Clark, Helen Bright, 364, 365, 372 Clarkson, Thomas, 82, 91 Cleveland, Grover, 379, 380 Clinton, Governor De Witt C, 450 Cluseret, General, 402 Cobb, Mr. and Mrs., 430, 431 Cobbe, Frances Power, 352, 362, 363, 382 Cobden, Jane, 364 Cochrane, James, 68 Cochrane, General John, 52, 55, 64, 70 Cochrane, Mary, 64 Colby, Clara B., 416, 420, 453 Cole, Senator Cornelius, 289 Coleridge, Lady, 425 Collyer, Rev. Robert, 327 Combe, Andrew, 115 Comte, Auguste, 395 Conkling, Judge Alfred, 52 Conkling, Roscoe, 52, 66 Conway, Rev. Moncure D., 356, 392, 451 Conway, Mrs. Moncure D., 356, 392, 439 Cooley, Judge Thomas M., 269, 270 Couzins, Phoebe W., 294, 312, 323, 420 Croly, Jennie C, 387 Crowninshield, Captain A.S., 154 Crowninshield, Mary, 153 Cox, S.S., 293 Coxe, Bishop, 66 Curtis, George William, 180, 240, 260,353 Cushier, Dr., 461 Cushman, Charlotte, 157 Dana, Charles A., 134, 448, 449 Dana, Eunice MacDaniel, 449 Darling, Anna B., 173 Darlington, Chandler, 267 Darlington, Hannah, 267 Davis, Edward M., 327, 382, 392 Davis. Paulina Wright, 150, 181, 194, 203, 243 Davitt, Michael. 366 Depesyrons, Professor, 348 Deraismes, Mme. Féresse, 400 Deraismes, Maria, 400 Dickinson, Anna E., 242, 260, 265, 266, 294, 353 Dickinson, Mary Lowe, 458 Dietrick, Ellen Battelle, 423, 453 Dilke, Mrs. Ashton, 408, 410 Dilke, Sir Charles, 360, 422 Dix, Dorothy, L., 305 Dix, General John A., 127 Douglass, Frederick, 54, 127, 144, 149, 180, 240, 260, 355, 401, 453, 454 Douglass, Mr., 457 Dowden, Professor, 379, 394 Dudley, Blandina Bleecker, 54 Dumas, Alexandre, 454 Durand, Mme. M.E., 388, 401 Dyer, Charles Gifford, 401 Dyer, Hella, 401 Eaton, Professor Amos B., 444 Eaton, Daniel C, 72, 108, 143 Eaton, Harriet Cady, 72, 108, 143 Eddy, Miss, 385 Eddy, Mrs. Jackson, 128, 182, 385 Edmunds, Senator George F., 174 Eliot, George, 382 Euet, Elizabeth F., 214 Ellsler, Fanny, 316 Elmy, Mrs., 358 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 127, 147, 150 England, Isaac W., 322 England, Mrs. Isaac W., 322 Everett, Charles, 335 Fabre, Senator Joseph, 402 Fairchild, Governor Lucius, 271 Faithful, Emily, 368 Farnham, Mrs., 305 Fawcett, Henry, M.P., 370, 371 Fawcett, Milicent J., 371, 374 Ferry, Jules, 177, 402 Ferry, Senator Thomas W., 312 Field, Rev. Dr. Henry M., 401 Field, Kate, 260, 423 Fine, Judge, 150 Finney, Rev. Charles G., 41, 42 Fitzhugh, Ann Carroll, 52, 70 Fitzhugh, Miss, 74 Folsom, Abigail, 130 Forbes, Arethusa, 323 Forney, John W., 329 Foster, Abby Kelly, 243, 316 Foster, Rachel, 413 Foster, Stephen, 54, 127, 243 Frederic, Harold, 7 Fremont, General John C, 403 French, Daniel C, 401 Frothingham, Rev. O.B., 226 Fronde, James Anthony, 363 Fry, Elizabeth, 80, 84, 87, 305 Fuller, Kate, 401 Fuller, Margaret, 449 Fuller, W.J.A., 401 Furness, Rev. William H., 311 Gage, Frances Dana, 194 Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 144, 179, 309, 312, 313, 323, 326, 328, 329, 382, 420 Gardener, Helen H., 392, 413 Garibaldi, General G., 403 Garrison, Gertrude, 392 Garrison, William Lloyd, 54, 81, 84, 91, 128, 129, 131, 150, 163, 169, 174, 213, 214, 219, 236, 243, 257, 267, 355, 435 Garrison, Mrs. W.L., 128, 129 Gay, Sidney Howard, 127 Geddes, Mr., 150 George, Henry, 450 Gestefeld, Ursula N., 453 Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 214, 243 Gillespie, Mrs., 314 Gladstone, Right Hon., William E., 360 Gladstone, Mrs. W.E., 397 Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 427 Godwin, William, 427 Grant, General, Ulysses S., 96, 388 Greeley, Horace, 152, 209, 215, 220, 226, 336, 240, 291 Greeley, Mrs. Horace, 134 Greene, Beriah, 54, 144, 210 Greenough, Mrs. W.H., 263 Greenwood, Grace, 401 Gréville, Henri, 388, 401 Grévy, President Jules, 402 Grévy, Mme. Jules, 402 Grew, Mary, 78 Grey, Maria G., 357 Grimké, Angelina, 80, 203, 266 Grimké, Sarah, 80, 203 Gripenberg, Baroness Alexandra, 410, 463 Gurney, John Joseph, 35 Gurney, Samuel, 85-88 Gustafsen, Mrs., 410 Hammond, Dr. William A., 413 Hanaford, Rev. Phebe A., 453, 461 Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, 323, 387 Harberton, Lady, 204 Harvey, Rev. A., 80 Hawley, General Joseph R., 310, 311, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 107 Hazeltine, Mayo W., 329 Heine, Heinrich, 407 Hertell, Judge 150 Hertz, Fannie, 359, 360 Hicks, Elias, 84 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 179 Hill, Octavia, 352 Hill, President, 434 Hinckley, Rev. Frederick A., 331 Hoar, Senator George F., 388 Hoggan, Dr. Frances E., 357 Hoisington, Rev. William, 220 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 108, 110, 141, 394 Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 330, 420, 448 Holyoake, George Jacob, 150 Hosack, Rev. Simon, 5, 21 Hoskins, Frances, 153 Hosmer, Harriet, 157, 374, 461 Hovey, Charles, 127 Howe, Julia Ward, 260, 460 Howell, Judge, 443 Howell, Mary Seymour, 383 Howells, William D., 356 Howells, Mrs. William D., 356 Howitt, Mary, 65 Hudson, Harriet, 443 Hugo, Victor, 429 Hunt, Jane, 148 Hunt, Dr. Harriet K., 172, 194, 243, 316 Hunt, Judge Ward, 179 Hunt, Richard, 148 Hurlbert, Judge, 197 Huron, Mr., 274 Hutchinson, Family, 131, 313 Hutchins, Mr., 291, 292 Hyacinthe, Père, 401 Ingersoll, Robert G., 132, 414 Jackson, Francis, 127, 182, 385 Jackson, Dr. James, 419 Jackson, Dr. Kate, 419 Jackson, Mr. and Mrs., 424 Jackson, Mrs., 422, 424 Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam, 451 Jameson, Anna, 80 Janes, Bishop, 294, 295 Jarvis, Helen, 203 Jenckes, Thomas A., 243, 244 Jenkins, Lydia, 203 Jenney, Mr. and Mrs., 270 Johnson, Adelaide, 433, 434 Johnson, Mariana, 127, 134 Johnson, Oliver, 127, 132, 133, 267 Johnson, Sir William, 6, 18 Joly, Professor Nicholas, 342, 350 Jones, Phoebe, 243 June, Jennie, 387 Kelley, William D., 240 Kelley, Abby, 54, 80, 127, 194 Kennan, George, 409 Kent, Chancellor, 7, 221-223 Kergomard, Pauline, 401 Kilpatrick, General, 260, 262 Kimber, Abby, 78, 93 King, Captain Charles, 448 Kingsford, Anna, 377 Kingsley, Canon Charles, 353, 370 Klumpke, Anna, 404 Krapotkine, Prince, 409 Laboulaye, Edouard R.L., 177 LaFayette, Marquis de, 316 Lampson, Father, 130 Lapham, Anson, 181 Lauterbach, Mrs. Edward, 451 Lawrence, Frank E., 417 Lawrence, Margaret Stanton, 324, 325, 377, 378, 418, 420, 432, 450, 451 Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, 365 Leavitt, Joshua, 138, 226 Lecky, W.E.H., 448 Lee, Richard Henry, 312 Lee, Theresa, 443 Lieneff, Mr., 409 Lincoln, Abraham, 210, 403 Livermore, Mary A., 260, 460 Livingston, Colonel James, 3 Livingston, Margaret, 3 Livingston, Mary, 133 Logan, Olive, 260, 374 Long, Governor John D., 330 Longfellow, Henry W., 387, 429, 447 Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, 219 Lord, Dr., 384 Lord, Emily, 406 Lord, Frances, 374, 377, 390-392, 432 Louis Philippe, 96, 97 Lowell, James Russell, 127, 357 Lozier, Dr. Clemence S., 387, 461 Lucas, Margaret Bright, 355, 360, 373-375, 394, 397 Lyon, Mary, 463 McClintock, Elizabeth, 153 McClintock, Mary Ann, 148 McKeon, Judge, 284 McLaren, Charles, 358 McLaren, Mrs. Charles, 358, 359, 394 McLaren, Hon. Duncan, M.P., 354 McLaren, Priscilla Bright, 353, 373-375, 394, 408 McLaren, Walter, 364, 374 McMartin, Donald, 379 McMartin, Duncan, 12, 135 McMartin, Margaret Cady, 11, 12, 48,49, 72, 110, 111 MacDaniel, Eunice, 449 MacDaniel, Frances L., 449 MacDaniel, Osborne, 449 Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, 362 Maire, Rev. Hugh, 72 Mann, Horace, 271 Mann, Prestona, 440 Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 425 Mansfield, Mrs. A.A., 282 Marsh, Luther R., 58 Martineau, Harriet, 91, 129, 382, 395 Massey, Gerald, 377 May, Rev. Samuel J., 54, 186, 191, 355 Mellen, Mrs. William, 370 Mendenhall, Dinah, 267 Meredith, George, 432 Michel, Louise, 305 Michelet, Jules, 465 Milinowski, Captain Arthur, 421 Mill, John Stuart, 352, 356, 357, 366, 369, Mill, Mrs. John Stuart, 150 Miller, Charles Dudley, 54, 55, 202, 203 Miller, Colonel, 88 Miller, Elizabeth Smith, 53, 56, 67, 200-202, 377, 418, 419, 434, 435, 455 Miller, Gerrit Smith, 454 Miller, Jenness, 204 Miller, John B., 67, 68 Miller, Judge, 105 Miller, Justice Samuel F., 317 Minor, Virginia L., 171, 317 Mitchell, Dr. Julia, 394, 408 Mitchell, Dr. Kate, 394, 408 Mitchell, Professor Maria, 157, 463 Moffett, Rev. Dr., 401 Moliner, Professor, 342 Morley, John, 407, 431 Morpeth, Lord, 87 Morris, William, 450 Morrison, Cotton, 395 Morsier, Emilie de, 400 Morton, Edwin, 54, 330 Mott, Lucretia, 54, 78, 80, 82-84, 87, 148,194, 217, 218, 294, 310, 311, 326, 327, 434, 435, 437, 460 Mott, Lydia, 214, 217, 243 Moulton, Louise Chandler, 401 Moulton, Mrs., 263 Müller, Eva, 374 Müller, Henrietta, 374 Murray, Eliza, in, 112 Napoleon, 95, 96, 266, 277 Neal, Elizabeth, 78 Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 86, 354, 355 O'Connell, Daniel, 89, 90, 103 O'Conor, Charles, 179 Olmstead, Rev. John W., 133 Olmstead, Mary Livingston, 133 Opie, Amelia, 80 Orr, Mrs., 360 Osborne, Eliza W., 434-437 O'Shea, Mrs. Kitty, 422 Owen, Robert Dale, 215, 236, 239, 242 Palmer, Senator John M., 414 Parker, Margaret, 375 Parker, Theodore, 127, 132-134, 150, 263 Parkhurst, Mrs., 429 Parnell, Charles Stewart, 360, 422, 423 Parsons, Chauncey C, 417 Parsons, Mrs. Chauncey C, 417 Patton, Rev. Dr., 382 Peabody, Elizabeth, 127, 132 Pearson, Karl, 409, 430 Pease, Elizabeth, 86, 129 Phelps, Elizabeth B., 173 Phillips, Ann Green, 80 Phillips, Wendell, 54, 58, 89, 129, 131, 150, 169, 180, 189, 213, 214, 218-220, 240, 243, 260, 332, 353 Pierpont, John, 127, 138 Pillsbury, Parker, 127, 257, 355 Plumb, Senator Preston B., 388 Pochin, Mrs.,338 Pomeroy, "Brick," 274, 275 Powell, Aaron, 211, 212 Powell, Professor, 442 Priestman, Annie, 371, 394 Priestman, Mary, 371 Pugh, Sarah, 78, 93, 97, 267, 327 Quincy, Edmund, 131 Ramsey, Mr., 215 Reid, Mrs. Hugo, 80 Remond, Charles, 355 Richer, Léon, 400 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, 407 Ripley, George, 134, 449 Ripley, Mrs. George, 449 Richardson, Abby Sage, 226, 439 Ristori, Marchionesse Adelaide, 356 Robinson, Governor Charles, 246-449, 252, 253 Roby, Matilda, 355 Rogers, Caroline Gilkey, 383 Rogers, Nathaniel P., 81, 355 Roland, Mme., 98, 277, 382 Rosa, Mr., 379 Rose, Ernestine L., 150, 189, 191, 217, 218, 243, 366 Root, Elihu, 451 Rouvier, M., 402 Runkle, Mrs., 451 Ruskin, John, 407 Sackett, fudge Gerrit V., 144, 195 Sage, Russell, 449, 450 Sage, Mrs. Russell, 440, 449, 451 Sanborn, Frank, 54, 330, 448 Sanders, Mrs. Henry M., 451 Sargent, Senator Aaron A., 176, 290 Sargent, Mrs. Aaron A., 176 Saville, Mrs., 374, 394 Scatcherd, Alice Cliff, 358, 364, 375, 408, 429 Scatcherd, Mr., 429 Schenck, Elizabeth B., 289 Schenck, Robert C, 243, 244 Scoble, Rev. John, 103, 104 Seaman, Mr., 268 Seidl, Professor, 417 Sewall, May Wright, 323, 420 Sewall, Samuel E., 127 Sewall, Mrs. Samuel E., 127 Seward, Governor William H., 135, 194, 197-199 Seward, Mrs. William H., 195, 197-199 Shaftesbury, Lord, 364 Shaw, Rev. Anna, 420, 461 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 379, 394, 427 Shelley, Percy Florence, 427 Smalley, George W., 357 Smith, Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, 52, 70 Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, 194 Smith, Gerrit, 51, 52, 54, 60-64, 66, 69, 138, 144, 179, 186, 187, 201, 213, 418, 419, 453-455 Smith, Greene, 454 Smith, Professor Horace, 380 Smith, Mrs. Horace, 379 Smith, Peter Sken, 454 Smith, Sidney, 190 Smith, Sisters, 316 Somerset, Lady Henry, 451, 463 Southwick, Abby, 78 Southwick, Joseph, 127 Southwick. Thankful, 127 Southworth, Louisa, 414, 453 Spaulding, Bishop, 380 Spence, Clara, 327 Spencer, John C, 7 Spencer, Sarah Andrews, 312 Spofford, Jane Snow, 380, 411, 413, 414, 420 Spofford, Mr., 414, 420 Sprague, Governor William, 294 Staël, Mme. de, 435 Stanford, Senator Leland, 288, 414 Stanley, Dean, 353, 375 Stansfeld, Mr., M.P., 364 Stanton, Hon. Daniel Cady, 415 Stanton, Edwin M., 403 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Granddaughter of author, 344, 428, 429 Stanton, Hon. Gerrit Smith, 164, 325, 416, 417, 448, 451 Stanton, Harriot Eaton, 325, 336, 337, 339, 363, 390-392, 394, 395, 397, 410, 418, 420-422, 429, 431, 451 Stanton, Henry, 163, 417 Stanton, Hon. Henry Brewster, 58, 59, 71, 72, 74, 76, 79, 85, 93, 100, 103, 107, 136, 139, 141, 143, 145, 186, 323, 380, 385 Stanton, Margaret Livingston, 324, 325, 377, 378, 418, 420, 432, 450, 451 Stanton, Marguerite Berry, 331, 428 Stanton, Robert Livingston, 325, 428, 432 Stanton, Theodore, 138, 164, 177, 325, 331, 339, 341, 343, 349, 357, 399, 403, 404, 428, 431, 448, 449, 455 Stead, William T., 422 Stebbins, Catharine F., 144 Stebbins, Giles, 144 Stebbins, Mrs., 282 Steinthal, Rev. Mr., 356 Stepniak, 408 Sterling, Antoinette, 462, 463 Stevens, Thaddeus, 243, 244 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 450 Stewart, Alvin, 58 Stone, Lucy, 194, 203, 243, 245, 294, 460 Stout, Rev. C., 80 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 264 Straus, Oscar S., 464 Stuart, Charles, 54 Stuart, Dr. Jacob H., 276 Stuart, Mrs. Jacob H., 276 Stuart, Professor, 397 Sturge, Joseph, 82, 367 Sumner, Charles, 138, 239, 240, 242, 403 Sutherland, Duchess of, 87 Swift, Isabella, 64, 66, 67 Swift, Lieutenant, 64 Tanner, Mrs., 364 Taylor, Helen, 366 Taylor, Mrs. Peter A., 368, 374, 394 Terry, Ellen, 464 Thacher, Mayor, 212 Thomson, Adeline, 327 Thomasson, Hon. John P., M. P., 360, 373 Thomasson, Mrs. John P., 373 Thompkins, Governor Daniel D., 7 Thompson, George, 54, 163, 169 Thompson, May Wright, 323 Tilton, Theodore, 6, 184, 260, 267, 401 Train, George Francis, 247, 256, 257 Traut, Mme. Griess, 400 Tree, Ellen, 204 Tudor, Mrs. Fenno, 330 Tyler, Professor, Moses Coit, 303 Tyng, Dr. Stephen, 240 Underhill, Zoe Dana, 448 Van Vechten, Abraham, 7 Vest, Senator George G., 319 Victoria, Queen, 398, 415 Vignon, Claude, 402 Villard, Fanny Garrison, 128 Villard, Henry, 128 Vincent, Henry, 260 Virchow, Professor, 363 Waite, Chief Justice Morrison R., 317 Walter, Ellen Cochrane, 69 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 358 "Warrington," 330 Washington, General George, 3 Weed, Thurlow, 330 Weld, Angelina Grimke, 114 Weld, Theodore D., 114, 240 Wellington, Duke of, 370 Wells, Emeline B., 286 West, Benjamin, 266 Weston, Deborah, 80 Whipple, E.P., 240 Whitney, Anna, 461 Whittier, John G., 127, 138-141, 266, 276 Whittle, Dr. Ewing, 375 Wigham, Eliza, 354 Wigham, Jane, 354 Wilberforce, Canon, 463 Wilberforce, William, 91 Wilbour, Charlotte Beebe, 173, 203, 401 Wilkeson, Catherine Cady, 110, 111 Wilkeson, Samuel, 135 Willard, Amelia, 203, 205, 386 Willard, Emma, 35, 37, 441, 444, 445, 449, 450, 463 Willard, Frances E., 452, 463 Willard, Mrs. John, 443 Williams, Senator C.G., 271 Williams, Elisha, 7 Wilson, Daniel, 402 Winckworth, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen, 362 Winslow, Emily, 64, 78 Woodhull, Victoria, 382 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 382, 427 Woodward, Mr., 273 Worden, Mrs., 195 Wright, David, 435 Wright, Frances, 382 Wright, Henry C., 355 Wright, Martha C., 148, 194, 243, 434, 435, 437 Wright, Mr., 282 Wright, Paulina, 127, 181, 194, 203, 243 Yost, Elizabeth W., 379 Yost, Maria, 9 Zackesewska, Dr. M.E., 243 [Portions of Chapters X. and XI. of this book are taken by permission from an article written by Mrs. Stanton for "Our Famous Women," published by A.D. 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