The Ladies of Seneca Falls (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Miriam Gurko
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: 1848–1920
- Setting: Seneca Falls, New York; Philadelphia; and Boston
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké, Margaret Fuller, Amelia Bloomer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social reform, Leadership, Feminism, Women, Equality, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Women’s rights, Biography, Orators or orations
- Locales: Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Seneca Falls, NY
Form and Content
In The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement, Miriam Gurko provides accessible and accurate biographical sketches of the key figures involved in the early women’s rights movement in the United States. In doing so, she also provides a cultural biography of the movement itself as a living, maturing entity. The chapters are organized in a roughly chronological format, each focusing on a principal figure or significant event.
Early chapters provide background and establish context, creating a concrete picture of the...
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