- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), women’s rights advocates. For more than 50 years Anthony and Stanton were close friends and co-workers. They emerged from different backgrounds and brought different but complementary skills and talents to their work. Anthony was a great organizer and speaker; Stanton specialized in analysis and writing. Anthony, who never married, was free to travel and indifferent to hardships. The vote was her central concern on the theory that all other advances would follow on its heels. Stanton liked to take her time and enjoyed comfort, or at least as much as a household of 7 children would allow. She considered the vote only one necessity for women's advancement. She served on the revising committee and as primary commentator for The Woman's Bible (1895-1898), a project—outrageous for its day—that analyzed the Bible from a feminist perspective. In 1869 the two women founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, the first of the major groups whose work would culminate in votes for women in 1920.
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton postcard
From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen
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