Suffrage and Self-Worth

author of "In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton" and headmistress of the Madeira School
Wednesday, February 8, 2006; Page C10

THE SOLITUDE OF SELF

Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton By Vivian Gornick

Farrar Straus Giroux. 135 pp. $17

In November 1895, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton turned 80, 6,000 people celebrated her birthday. The "Queen Mother" of American suffragists was enthroned on the Metropolitan Opera House stage under a canopy of evergreens and roses for a program of adulation and applause. Stanton, the subject of journalist Vivian Gornick's new book, was the best-known advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. "The Solitude of Self," a public address she delivered in 1892, was the definitive statement of her feminist ideology.

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