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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (search)
denied membership on account of their sex. Lucretia Mott, Sarah Pugh, Emily Winslow, Abby Kimber, Meme. At a dinner-table in Queen Street, Mrs. Lucretia Mott--then in the prime of her intellectual pme, saw, heard, and became acquainted with Lucretia Mott. Often and often, during her maidenly yeaeks constant and familiar companionship with Mrs. Mott, she wonderingly heard the whole cyclopedia nged to the circle of conservative opinion. Mrs. Mott was the first liberal thinker on womanhood wyou in Europe? and she instantly replied, Lucretia Mott! One day, as a party of a dozen or more friends were visiting the British Museum, Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Stanton, who were of the company, had hritish Museum. Mrs. Stanton's enthusiasm for Mrs. Mott continues still as fresh and warm as then. est woman ever produced in this country is Lucretia Mott. On returning to America, Mr. Stanton bvention, held at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, Lucretia Mott proposed the adoption of the declaration o[1 more...]
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, The woman's rights movement and its champions in the United States. (search)
their seats. The delegation consisted of Lucretia Mott, Mary Grew, Abby Kimber, Elizabeth Neale, esided over the deliberations. Sitting near Mrs. Mott in the convention, I mischievously suggestedMott. It was in London that I first met Lucretia Mott. We chanced to stop at the same house, wi see the wonders of the world. On entering, Mrs. Mott and myself sat down near the door to rest foink. On the following Sunday I went to hear Mrs. Mott preach in a Unitarian church. Though I had and preach as earnestly and impressively as Mrs. Mott always does, it seemed to me like the realizone of the gentlemen remarked:-- You see, Mrs. Mott, our Heavenly Father believes in bright colo the Quakers. Owing to her liberal views, Mrs. Mott was shunned by the Orthodox Quakers of Englatitutions. From the following extracts from Mrs. Mott's memoranda, the reader will get an insight beautiful life. Extracts from memoranda Lucretia Mott. A native of the Island of Nantucket,-[3 more...]
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. (search)
he large school-house was crowded; her subject was Woman's work. Speaking from the depths of her own experience, she held the audience in breathless silence for over an hour. There was an indescribable pathos in her full, rich voice, that, aside from what she said, touched the hearts of her hearers, and moved many to tears. Her power seemed miraculous to the people, and they would not disperse until she promised to speak again in the evening. Some one remarked at the adjournment, If Lucretia Mott had made that speech, it would be thought a great one. In the evening she spoke on the subject of slavery, for the first time, and with equal effect. A collection of several dollars was taken up for her, the first she ever received for giving an address. Failing to find employment in Philadelphia, she accepted, as a last resort, a district school in Bucks County, with a salary of twenty-five dollars a month. She came home once in two weeks to take part in the Sunday meetings. On h
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Woman as physician. (search)
on further for themselves and for the benefit of similar sufferers. In 1833, Mrs. Mott, an English woman, established herself in Boston. Her husband was a physiciame they changed their residence, leasing their own house, and taking rooms in Mrs. Mott's. Then the school was given up, and Harriot accepted the position of secretary to Mrs. Mott, conducting an extensive correspondence with patients. She entered upon it with her usual ardor. It enlarged the sphere of her observation, intensiemed a great word to me, she says; curative was small beside it. The death of Dr. Mott caused Mrs. Mott to return to England and broke up the household. Still the sMrs. Mott to return to England and broke up the household. Still the studies were pursued, with an increasingly clear persuasion of what the purpose of her life was to be, and a very distinct recognition of providential guidance in it. The period spent thus, nearly three years (including her attendance in Mrs. Mott's office), in addition to the more private reading in the sick-room during the inte