Part 13

The world was moving in Great Britain as well, for as Susan read in her newspaper, women there were petitioning Parliament for married women's property rights, and among the petitioners were her well-beloved Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Gaskell, and Charlotte Cushman. Better still, Harriet Taylor, inspired by the example of woman's rights conventions in America, had written for the Westminster Review an article advocating the enfranchisement of women.

All this reassured Susan, even if New York legislators laughed at her efforts.

FOOTNOTES:

Judge William Hay of Saratoga Springs, New York.

Feb. 19, 1854, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.

Harper, Anthony, I, p. 116. Among those who wore the bloomer costume were Angelina and Sarah Grimke, many women in sanitoriums and some of the Lowell, Mass. mill workers. In Ohio, the bloomer was so popular that 60 women in Akron wore it at a ball, and in Battle Creek, Michigan, 31 attended a Fourth of July celebration in the bloomer. Amelia Bloomer, moving to the West wore it for eight years. Garrison, Phillips, and William Henry Channing disapproved of the bloomer costume, but Gerrit Smith continued to champion it and his daughter wore it at fashionable receptions in Washington during his term in Congress.

History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 608.

1854 (copy), Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.

Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 111-112.

March 3, 1854 (copy), Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.

Ms., Diary, March 24, 28, 1854.

Ibid., March 29, 1854.

Ibid., March 30, 1854.

The New England Emigrant Aid Company, headed by Eli Thayer of Worcester, was formed to send free-soil settlers to Kansas, offering reduced fare and farm equipment. Their first settlers reached Kansas in August, 1854, founding the town of Lawrence in honor of one of their chief patrons, the wealthy Amos Lawrence of Massachusetts.

Harper, Anthony, I, p. 121.

Diary, April 28, 1854.

Leonard C. Ehrlich, God's Angry Man (New York, 1941), p. 57.

Harper, Anthony, I, p. 122.

Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America (New York, 1913), p. 49.

1858, Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.

Harper, Anthony, I, p. 133.

Ibid.

Eliza J. Eddy's husband, James Eddy, took their two young daughters away from their mother and to Europe, causing her great anguish. This led her father, Francis Jackson, to give liberally to the woman's rights cause. Mrs. Eddy, herself, left a bequest of $56,000 to be divided between Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone.

Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 131-133.

Ibid., p. 138.

Ibid., p. 139.

Jan. 18, 1856, Garrison Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 140-141.