An Introduction to the History of Women's Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Matilda Joslyn Gage · Millicent Fawcett · Ida Husted Harper

Dec 2021 · Renard Press Ltd

About this ebook

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, came together to publish the first volume in their groundbreaking History of Woman Suffrage series – a series that eventually went on to fill 5700 pages and lend weight to a movement that changed the course of history for ever.

Taking its dedication from the first volume of the History – to the memory of pioneering women whose 'earnest lives and fearless words have been, in the preparation of these pages, a constant inspiration' – this volume collects together four essays that give an insight into the work as a whole, and provide a rounded introduction to the history of women's suffrage on both sides of the Atlantic.

About the author

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women's suffrage movement in America, best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produced in collaboration with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produced in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, which chronicles the history of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–98) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produced in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, which chronicles the history of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) was an English writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, leading the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) for over twenty years. As a writer, she left behind many works and articles, including a piece on ‘The Progress of the Women’s Movement in the United Kingdom, 1900–20’ in Volume IV of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper’s History of Woman Suffrage.

Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for taking up the editorship of volume four of the six-volume encyclopaedia series produced by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, which chronicles the history of women’s suffrage in the United States and United Kingdom.