It took seven decades of steady, often brutal, campaigning to get United States women the right to vote. The activism began in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and friends shocked the local patriarchy by getting together in a church to tell their menfolk what they expected out of life. At that point, men should have […]
Susan B. Anthony
Historic women’s landmarks, yes
Statues of famous American women, not so much If you haven’t heard the controversy over the statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony proposed for Central Park, let me go on record saying it is a step up. Until now, the female ranks depended on images of Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland and […]
Black women’s rights pioneers deserve more credit
A new statue honoring women will debut in New York City sometime soon, but it will depict the old standbys: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Not that there’s anything wrong with these women. It’s just that there are so many other early women’s rights advocates who could use the publicity, particularly women of […]
Center for Great Women opening in Seneca Falls
This year, the new Center for Great Women will take up residence in the historic Seneca Falls Knitting Mill in Seneca Falls, NY. Next year marks the centennial anniversary of U.S. women’s right to vote, so it’s prime time to visit this western New York town, birthplace of the women’s rights movement in the United […]
Seneca Falls deserves some respect
A newsy article about Seneca Falls, NY, the setting for my first historical novel, turned up in the Washington Post recently. Debra Bruno starts out by declaring that “If Concord, Mass., is the home of the “shot heard round the world” in the American Revolution, and Gettysburg was a bloody turning point in the Civil […]
Women rule in Seneca Falls
If you support women’s rights and haven’t made a trip to Seneca Falls, NY—go! I’ve visited several times and never fail to be moved by the names of the 68 courageous women engraved on the wall in the Women’s Rights National Historical Park who signed the Declaration of Sentiments more than a century and a […]
