Product Description

The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author's words, an "unabashedly 'great woman' biography."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #465452 in Books
• Published on: 1985-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"A superbly readable and historically accurate account of perhaps the most audaciously intelligent American woman in nineteenth-century America. It's the best Stanton biography we're likely to see."--The Women's Review of Books

"A well-rounded biography that does full justice to this truly extraordinary woman."--The New York Times

"At last there's a biography of Stanton worthy of its subject. Like Stanton herself, the book is feisty, intelligent, articulate...full of the concrete reality of this feminist heroine's life."--Betty Friedan

"Elisabeth Griffith's biography is...the best to date of Elizabeth Cady Stanton."--Ms. Magazine

"Griffith has not only done an excellent job of portraying Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life in a lively, readable manner, but has also given us a reasonable explanation for Stanton's behavior."--Journal of the Early Republic

"Griffith's biography brings to life a remarkable personality who had the courage and drive both to pioneer a new role and to stake out the new intellectual territory needed to sustain it."--Harvard Law Review

"Griffith's compelling biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton takes a major step in restoring the controversial women's rights activist to her true place in history."--New Directions for Women

"Griffith's fine biography, combining careful scholarship with lively writing, splendidly restores this bold, intelligent, engaging woman to 20th-century America."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y.

"Griffith's work illuminates both women's forgotten history, and their magnificent ability to stand in their own light."--The Washington Post

"This biography performs a great service: it chronicles the life of an important pioneer who had been relegated to obscurity for far too long."--Dr. Sally K. Ride


"A superbly readable and historically accurate account of perhaps the most audaciously intelligent American woman in nineteenth-century America. It's the best Stanton biography we're likely to see."--The Women's Review of Books
"Griffith's biography brings to life a remarkable personality who had the courage and drive both to pioneer a new role and to stake out the new intellectual territory needed to sustain it."--Harvard Law Review
"A well-rounded biography that does full justice to this truly extraordinary woman."--The New York Times
"At last there's a biography of Stanton worthy of its subject. Like Stanton herself, the book is feisty, intelligent, articulate...full of the concrete reality of this feminist heroine's life."--Betty Friedan
"Griffith's compelling biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton takes a major step in restoring the controversial women's rights activist to her true place in history."--New Directions for Women
"A superbly readable and historically accurate account of perhaps the most audaciously intelligent American woman in nineteenth-century America. It's the best Stanton biography we're likely to see."--The Women's Review of Books
"Griffith's fine biography, combining careful scholarship with lively writing, splendidly restores this bold, intelligent, engaging woman to 20th-century America."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y.
"This biography performs a great service: it chronicles the life of an important pioneer who had been relegated to obscurity for far too long."--Dr. Sally K. Ride
"Griffith's biography brings to life a remarkable personality who had the courage and drive both to pioneer a new role and to stake out the new intellectual territory needed to sustain it."--Harvard Law Review
"Griffith has not only done an excellent job of portraying Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life in a lively, readable manner, but has also given us a reasonable explanation for Stanton's behavior."--Journal of the Early Republic
"A well-rounded biography that does full justice to this truly extraordinary woman."--The New York Times
"At last there's a biography of Stanton worthy of its subject. Like Stanton herself, the book is feisty, intelligent, articulate...full of the concrete reality of this feminist heroine's life."--Betty Friedan
"Griffith's work illuminates both women's forgotten history, and their magnificent ability to stand in their own light."--The Washington Post
"Elisabeth Griffith's biography is...the best to date of Elizabeth Cady Stanton."--Ms. Magazine
"A valuable and needed contribution not only to biography but also to history and women's literature."--The San Francisco Chronicle
"Excellent biography: insightful, provocative in its portrayal of Stanton's thought, frustrations, and accomplishments."--James B. Crooks, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
"[An] absorbing biography [that] does full justice to Elizabeth Cady Stanton..." -- The Wall Street Journal

Customer Reviews

Mesmerizing
I found this book totally mesmerizing. I thought the author did a good job in covering Stanton's later years. She was thorough and honest. I learned a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in the origins of women's history.

Semi-Informational but Long winded
I would reccomend this book but only to someone extremely interested in the subject. If you are looking to be amused-this is not a good choice. This is definately an educational resource to be used to understand this woman's life, not to be interpreted as a cozy novel to curl up by the fire with... but as I said, if you are a real woman's history buff- I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Excellent, highly readable, biography
Dr. Griffiths has written a thorough, well-researched biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton that both presents the facts of her life and a rich understanding of the psychology and world-view of this terrifically important woman in American history. Dr. Griffith's prose is fluid, readable, and to the point. I was only sorry that she didn't fully discuss the fact that the Cady family owned at least one slave, Peter Teabout, during Stanton's childhood years. A discussion of this and it's relationship to Stanton's abolitionist sensibilities; her objections to passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution; and the difference between her father as a slave-owner and her cousin, Gerrit Smith, a prominent abolitionist; by a scholar of Dr. Griffith's caliber would have been extremely interesting.