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In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Paperback – November 21, 1985

by Elisabeth Griffith (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
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The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author's words, an "unabashedly 'great woman' biography."
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  1. Print length
    304 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    November 21, 1985
  5. Dimensions
    8.58 x 5.57 x 0.76 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0195037294
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0195037296
  8. Lexile measure
    1220L
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"A superbly readable and historically accurate account of perhaps the most audaciously intelligent American woman in nineteenth-century America. It's the best Stanton biography we're likely to see."--The Women's Review of Books

"Griffith's biography brings to life a remarkable personality who had the courage and drive both to pioneer a new role and to stake out the new intellectual territory needed to sustain it."--Harvard Law Review

"A well-rounded biography that does full justice to this truly extraordinary woman."--The New York Times

"At last there's a biography of Stanton worthy of its subject. Like Stanton herself, the book is feisty, intelligent, articulate...full of the concrete reality of this feminist heroine's life."--Betty Friedan

"Griffith's compelling biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton takes a major step in restoring the controversial women's rights activist to her true place in history."--New Directions for Women

"Griffith's fine biography, combining careful scholarship with lively writing, splendidly restores this bold, intelligent, engaging woman to 20th-century America."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y.

"This biography performs a great service: it chronicles the life of an important pioneer who had been relegated to obscurity for far too long."--Dr. Sally K. Ride

"Griffith has not only done an excellent job of portraying Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life in a lively, readable manner, but has also given us a reasonable explanation for Stanton's behavior."--Journal of the Early Republic

"Griffith's work illuminates both women's forgotten history, and their magnificent ability to stand in their own light."--The Washington Post

"Elisabeth Griffith's biography is...the best to date of Elizabeth Cady Stanton."--Ms. Magazine

"A valuable and needed contribution not only to biography but also to history and women's literature."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Excellent biography: insightful, provocative in its portrayal of Stanton's thought, frustrations, and accomplishments."--James B. Crooks, University of North Florida, Jacksonville

"[An] absorbing biography [that] does full justice to Elizabeth Cady Stanton..."--The Wall Street Journal

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In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. It traces Stanton from her privilege, unconventional childhood to her marriage to an abolitionist hero turned political opportunist ( with whom she had seven children), to her achievements as reformer, newspaper editor, popular lecturer, organization leader, and historian of woman's suffrage.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (November 21, 1985)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195037294
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195037296
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1220L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.58 x 5.57 x 0.76 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

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Jan Barbour (English & social studies teacher)
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, highly readable, biography
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2007
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Dr. Griffiths has written a thorough, well-researched biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton that both presents the facts of her life and a rich understanding of the psychology and world-view of this terrifically important woman in American history. Dr. Griffith's prose is fluid, readable, and to the point. I was only sorry that she didn't fully discuss the fact that the Cady family owned at least one slave, Peter Teabout, during Stanton's childhood years. A discussion of this and it's relationship to Stanton's abolitionist sensibilities; her objections to passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution; and the difference between her father as a slave-owner and her cousin, Gerrit Smith, a prominent abolitionist; by a scholar of Dr. Griffith's caliber would have been extremely interesting.
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Julia Anderson
4.0 out of 5 stars Great history
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2013
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Very well written, detailed and informative. Enjoyed it very much.
I especially enjoyed all of the quotes from diaries and other sources
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Linda J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Ahead of her time....makes your thankful for your rights!
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017
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You need to read this book. It's a fast and easy read and will leave you thankful for your freedoms as a woman. What surprised me most is that Mrs. Cady-Stanton had some of the sames struggles that we women of today have. She was so very far ahead of her time. She actually spearheaded the Suffrage Movement of the 19th and 20th Centuries, but most of the credit went to her friend/companion/fellow-suffragette, Susan B. Anthony. The author of this book writes with honesty and candor, Mrs. Cady-Stanton is painted in a genuine light with flaws and shortcomings but also one who made up for them with her courage, strength, and steadfast belief in EQUALITY for WOMEN. Too many people (men and women!) today fail to realize just how far women have come. If you want to be inspired--read this book. It's now in my Top 5 of all time!!! Highly recommended!
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Nancy L. Mccue
4.0 out of 5 stars Mother, wife, and independent woman
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2016
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Biography in very minute detail. Stanton had interesting life, but parts of book are easily skimable. Definitely informative; I learned a lot, but did have to push through a few sections. Beginnings of the women's movement and work for women to get the vote are carefully delineated.
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Ehahlil
5.0 out of 5 stars In Her Own Right
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2011
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A brilliant book about a brilliant freedom fighter. A must read for advocates of social change and equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life is showed before us in plain and mostly unbiased way. Not enough is talked about in regards to why Stanton was so unhappy with the extension of the right to vote to black men. It could have explained that while that passage was giving (much needed) legal protection to black men, that they only counted for 5% of the population. She advocated for women's rights to vote before the latter because she would instead be enfranchising 50% of the population - from white women, past slaves, native americans etc... For her, women's rights came before every other cause she championed. People ought not forget she was a champion of abolitionism.
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Sallyworld
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a feminist diatribe
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2012
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Elizabeth C. Stanton is a writer and historian on par with David McCullough. She somehow manages to document the entire social phenomenon of mid 18th to early 19th century America with an ease that makes this book of history read like a straight forward adventure tale set on an alien planet. If this book was required reading in 8th grade we would have a generation of Americans who would question the entire format of dry politically correct, mind numbing, school board approved history textbooks.
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slimswimmer
4.0 out of 5 stars Never forget how the women's vote was won
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2013
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Ms. Stanton never got credited for all her work in the women's suffrage movement; in fact, before this book I had not heard of her. She was a dynamic woman who had a vision and the power of the pen and she was not afraid to use it. Fascinating interactions between her and other prominent women of the day. I have always been a voter, but after reading this, I will not miss a chance to vote no matter if it is local, state or national. What these women went through to win the right to vote is worth our time to read about it, and to honor them by voting. Always.
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eledavf Vivian
3.0 out of 5 stars Were their efforts worth it?
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2014
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Unfortunately since reading this book, but not because of it, my whole attitude toward the women's movement has changed. First let me say that the author writes well and gives a balanced view of Stanton's too often minimized role when compared with Susan B. Anthony's. For that correction this biography deserves much credit. What also becomes clear is that Stanton's busy life as a wife and mother of several children formed a sharp distinction with Anthony's dogged, solitary devotion to the struggle. It explains why Anthony's travels were incessant while Stanton applied herself assiduously to literary and epistolary matters in her comfortable home.

Nonetheless, I am no longer the ardent espouser of women's rights that I had been for so many years. I had always believed that women would be more peace-loving than men, that they would invariably vote against war, that they would follow the courageous example of Jeanette Rankin, the only woman sitting in Congress during both world wars and voting against them both. Hers was an example of unparalleled integrity that should be honored with a national holiday but never will be.

Of course I gave Queens and Empresses a pass, their positions being so exceptional.

Women now occupy a huge proportion of influential and powerful positions in government both in Europe and America, and they act in the same bloodthirsty ways that men always have. Their infamous tracks are all over the day's news cycles. So clearly there is no hope for the human race.

I would like to think that Stanton and Anthony would have the integrity to be as appalled and disillusioned about this revelation as I am. But probably not. Perhaps they were realists who knew that they were working for people with no more claim to decency than men.

I now even doubt whether women deserve the vote. I who never missed an election. Have there been fewer wars since women had a voice in the decision?

Consequently I can only say that this book gives a balanced account of an important movement in history, but in my opinion important doesn't necessarily equate with "worthwhile" or "beneficial to the world". I suppose the only movement that can claim to be struggling for the truly deserving is the animal rights movement. Animals, after all, never disappoint and never deceive.
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