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Book Review

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Ellen Carol DuBois. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1997. Pp. x, 353. $35.00.

"The interconnectedness of history was built into her life" (p. 260), Ellen Carol DuBois writes of Harriot Stanton Blatch in this superb biography of an under-appreciated champion of women's rights. Stanton Blatch was the daughter of suffrage pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriot's activism and reputation were inextricably connected to those of her famous forebear. On one level, DuBois's biography is the story of a daughter's quest to come out from the shadow of her mother. Stanton Blatch was connected not only to the first generation of suffragists but also to the celebrated figures credited with guiding the movement to victory in 1920: Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. On a second level, DuBois's book is an argument that Stanton Blatch deserves a place alongside Catt and Paul in the women's rights pantheon. Modernizing the ambitious program for women's liberation pioneered by her mother, rejecting the more narrow strategic choices of Catt and Paul, Stanton Blatch envisioned a democratic women's movement dedicated to "liberating women's untapped possibilities" (p. 277). 1

Stanton was born in the birthplace of feminism, Seneca Falls, New York, in 1856. From the start she was implicated in the women's rights struggle: her mother intended hers to be a model of enlightened girlhood, physically vital and intellectually confident. Although the young Stanton identified strongly with her mother's passion for reform causes, she also felt drawn to the world of partisan politics, as embodied by her staunchly Democratic father. She would eventually combine these interests in reform and partisanship into a program for women's uplift, but not before receiving new forms of inspiration from the outside world. Ater an unhappy college career at Vassar, the young woman set sail for Europe in 1880. . . .

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