Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Pioneers of Suffrage: From Beginnings to the 19th Amendment

Jane Addams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Husted Harper, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Alice Stone Blackwell

• Publisher: Madison & Adams Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9788026884781
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul. This edition includes as well the complete 6 volume history of the movement - from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.

Table of contents

• Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes
• Table of Contents
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Jane Addams
• Lucy Stone
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Alice Paul
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Millicent Garrett Fawcett
• History of Woman Suffrage (1848-1920)