“Grim old London welcomed me back”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Second Foray into Europe
This essay explores how Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s extended travel in Europe in the late 1880s and early 90s was a catalyst for an evolution in her intellectual and activist development. In the final years of her life, Stanton wrote feminist masterpieces such as the speech, “The Solitude of Self” and...
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E-rea
2019
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| Résumé: | This essay explores how Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s extended travel in Europe in the late 1880s and early 90s was a catalyst for an evolution in her intellectual and activist development. In the final years of her life, Stanton wrote feminist masterpieces such as the speech, “The Solitude of Self” and The Woman’s Bible, but she also wrote xenophobic diatribes, such as her defense of Educated Suffrage, all of which enraged or at least irritated many of her closest personal political allies. In addition to her written work, she waded into new activist territory, helping launch the International Council of Women in 1888, championing Irish Home Rule and the American Populist Party, and increasingly distancing herself from the organized suffrage movement. Considering Stanton’s experiences in Europe from 1882-1892—recorded in her letters, diary entries and autobiography—deepens our understanding of her late intellectual and activist work at its most radical and its most bigoted, and by extension, allows us to situate her more clearly as a transatlantic thinker and activist. |
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