Description: 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.
'An indispensable source.' -Lisa Tetrault
'There is nothing in the annals of American reform quite like History of Woman Suffrage.' - Ellen Carol DuBois
Brief description: 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.