Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
William Penn--Independence Hall--British troops--Heroism of
women--Lydia Darrah--Who designed the Flag--Anti-slavery movements in
Philadelphia--Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a mob--David Paul
Brown--Fugitives--Millard Fillmore--John Brown--Angelina Grimke--Abby
Kelly--Mary Grew--Temperance in 1848--Hannah Darlington and Ann
Preston before the Legislature--Medical College for Women in
1850--Westchester Woman's Rights Convention, 1852--Philadelphia
Convention, 1854--Lucretia Mott answers Richard H. Dana--Jane Grey
Swisshelm--Sarah Josepha Hale--Anna McDowell--Rachel Foster searching
the records--Sketch of Angelina Grimke 320
CHAPTER XI.
LUCRETIA MOTT.
Eulogy at the Memorial Services held at Washington by the National
Woman Suffrage Association, January 19, 1881. By Elizabeth Cady
Stanton 407
CHAPTER XII.
NEW JERSEY.
Tory feeling in New Jersey--Hannah Arnett rebuked the traitor
spirit--Mrs. Dissosway rejects all proposals to disloyalty--Triumphal
arch erected by the ladies of Trenton in honor of Washington--His
letter to the ladies--The origin of Woman Suffrage in New Jersey--A
paper read by William A. Whitehead before the Historical
Society--Defects in the Constitution of New Jersey--A singular
pamphlet called "Eumenes"--Opinion of Hon. Charles James Fox--Mr.
Whitehead reviewed 441
CHAPTER XIII.
MRS. STANTON'S REMINISCENCES.
Mrs. Stanton's and Miss Anthony's first meeting--An objective view of
these ladies from a friend's standpoint--A glimpse at their private
life--The pronunciamentos they issued from the fireside--Mrs. Wright,
Mrs. Seward, Mrs. Worden, Mrs. Mott, in council--How Mrs. Worden
voted--Ladies at Newport dancing with low necks and short sleeves, and
objecting to the publicity of the platform--Senator Seward discussing
Woman's Rights at a dinner-party--Mrs. Seward declares herself a
friend to the reform--A magnetic circle in Central New York--Matilda
Joslyn Gage: her early education and ancestors--A series of
Anti-Slavery Conventions from Buffalo to Albany--Mobbed at every
point--Mayor Thatcher maintains order in the Convention at the
Capital--Great excitement over a fugitive wife from the insane
asylum--The Bloomer costume--Gerrit Smith's home 456
CHAPTER XIV.
NEW YORK.
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