I bought this to help w a college essay on her speech declarations of sentiments.
Well written, relates her life well to the history and other influential people of the times.ReadableElizabeth Cady Stanton.
This is a splendid, short, readable biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ginzberg, a distinguished scholar of the nineteenth-century women's movement, is frankly critical of some aspects of Stanton's personality and views, yet she also manages to convey her brilliance and her charm.
This is by far the best biography on Stanton to date. Ginzberg manages to capture Stanton's personality within the pages.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is not a name often heard or read about unlike her contemporary Susan B. Anthony, even though these two women were great friends.
Hey, look at that! A biography that doesn't attempt to canonise its subject.
Knowing next to nothing about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I was delighted to learn something about this suffragist (NOT woman suffragist, as Elizabeth Cady Staton would say). This highly readable biography gives a clear picture of the times (1815-1902), the customs and the life of this spirited lady.
This brief (almost 200 pages) biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton races through the life of one of America's earliest feminist leaders, but still manages to convey a powerful sense of her intellectual dynamism, forceful self-confidence, and how she fit into the reformers community of her time. The focus of the book remains firmly on Stanton's ideas and writings, rather than the personal events of the subjects life - whether this is because Stanton and her children went to such effort to edit anything too personal out of her papers, or because the biographer firmly intended this to be a short and focused book, I'm not sure.
Not my cup of tea, but I'm glad I read the beginning to learn what a stone cold badass Elizabeth Cady Stanton was.
