Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-016
Abstract
Anna M. Jackson and her daughter, Anna M. (Jackson Branson) Theiss, were Quaker activists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anna M. Jackson was very involved in reform activities in New York City. She served as Chairman of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, and was also involved in the Women's Municipal League and the Political Study Club. Her daughter, Anna Morris Jackson ("Pansy"), attended Swarthmore College for two years, and in 1909 earned a B.S. in Education from Columbia...
Dates:
1794-1962
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-260
Abstract
Mariana Wright Chapman was a prominant New York Quaker suffragist. The collection includes correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and her husband, Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family...
Dates:
1808-1983 (bulk: 1842-1911)
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Abstract
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
Somerville Literary Society Collection of Autographs of Famous Women
Collection — Othertype SC-248
Identifier: SFHL-SC-248
Abstract
Contains a collection of autographs of prominent women including Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lillie Devereux Blake, and Emily Sartain. The items were given to the Somerville Literary Society, a Swarthmore College women's literary organization, by Charles F. Jenkins to form the nucleus of an autograph collection. Most include a short published biography and portrait with a brief note from the subject. Exceptions are two letters from Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In one, she defends Mrs....
Dates:
1848-1907
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- Quaker women 2
- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Autographs -- Women -- Collections 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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