Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 6

FAIN: RQ-50450-10

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)
Ann D. Gordon (Project Director: November 2009 to June 2013)

Preparation for print publication of the final volume of the Stanton-Anthony edition. (24 months)

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is a six-volume edition of the most important papers of two leading nineteenth-century Americans, chosen from the comprehensive collection published in 1991. Rutgers University Press has published five volumes of the Selected Papers. This proposal describes work on the sixth and final volume of this series. With documents from December 1895 to March 1906, this volume will treat the deaths of both women--Stanton in 1902, Anthony in 1906. In U.S. history, Stanton and Anthony are best known as agitators for woman suffrage. Their interest in that cause and strength to fight for it endured until the weeks before their deaths. To the ends of their lives, both women were also astute observers of the nation's political life, and their views on everything from bicycles to war were sought by the press.

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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume VI: An Awful Hush (Book)
Title: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume VI: An Awful Hush
Author: Susan B. Anthony
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Editor: Katherine Lee, Editorial Assistant
Editor: Ann D. Gordon, Editor
Editor: Michael David Cohen, Assistant Editor
Editor: Sara Rzeszutek Haviland, Assistant Editor
Editor: Andy Bowers, Editorial Assistant
Abstract: The “hush” of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, “it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home.” Volume VI of this series of selected papers is about endings, death, and silence. But death happens here to women still in the fight. An Awful Hush is about reformers trained “in the school of anti-slavery” trying to practice their craft in the age of Jim Crow and a new American Empire. It recounts new challenges to “an aristocracy of sex,” whether among the bishops of the Episcopal church, the voters of California, or the trustees of the University of Rochester. And it sends last messages about woman suffrage. As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, “Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.” With the publication of Volume VI, this series is now complete.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/selected-papers-of-elizabeth-cady-stanton-and-susan-b-anthony-an-awful-hush-1895-to-1906/oclc/767566073&referer=brief_results
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Secondary URL: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Selected-Papers-of-Elizabeth-Cady-Stanton-and-Susa,4136.aspx
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Access Model: Book
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780813553474
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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