The
Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader : Correspondence,
Writings, Speeches by Ellen Carol Dubois
(Editor), Gerda Lerner
Combining primary documents with interpretive
essays, this book traces the relationship and political
development of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The
documents delineate the progress of American reform politics from
Stanton's speech at Seneca Falls in 1848 into the early twentieth
century, when a conflict developed between the two feminists over
woman suffrage. In her new introduction, Ellen Carol DuBois
considers the current historiographical perspective on Stanton and
Anthony.
Praise for the previous edition: Ellen DuBois... is
wonderfully present throughout the book. Her critical commentary,
filled with useful Civil War and suffrage history, is vivid and
interesting, her interpretation of personality and event engaged,
alive. But it is in the way DuBois has chosen and positioned the
letters and speeches that one feels most strongly the intelligent
love she bears Stanton and Anthony -- Vivian
Gornick, The New York Times Book Review
