This addition to the Women of Achievement series focuses on one of the better-known woman suffragists of the nineteenth century. Drawing largely on Stanton's autobiography as well as a few other sources, Loos presents asurprisingly detailed psychological and emotional portrait of the revolutionary. Born in 1815 to a wealthy family, Stanton apparently started her lifelong love of learning and independence in reaction to her father's depression, which followed the death of her brother. The biography gives balanced ...
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This addition to the Women of Achievement series focuses on one of the better-known woman suffragists of the nineteenth century. Drawing largely on Stanton's autobiography as well as a few other sources, Loos presents asurprisingly detailed psychological and emotional portrait of the revolutionary. Born in 1815 to a wealthy family, Stanton apparently started her lifelong love of learning and independence in reaction to her father's depression, which followed the death of her brother. The biography gives balanced consideration to Stanton's personal and politicallife and details her concerns about depression, motherhood, and personal loss, as well as her frustrations with the abolitionist and the women's rights movements.
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