Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

About the book

Stanton recounts childhood, schooling, marriage, motherhood, and the experiences that shaped her involvement in the movement for women's rights. The narrative follows conventions, public speaking, writing, travel, and the sustained partnership with Susan B. Anthony, while preserving the practical pressures and personal relationships surrounding that work. Questions of education, property, marriage, political participation, and religion repeatedly connect an individual incident with a larger institution. Her retrospective voice is argumentative as well as commemorative, using remembered episodes to explain why accepted arrangements required challenge. The book also records the labour of maintaining a reform movement over decades, including disagreement and resistance. Readers encounter a participant's forceful account of public change whose domestic details show how difficult it was to separate political principles from the organization of everyday life.

• Women's rights
• Reform and partnership
• Domestic and public life

Why read it

For a reformer's account that connects public campaigns with the household pressures, friendships, and convictions that sustained them.

Autobiographical reminiscences, 1815–1897 · English text