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The Womens Right Activist Harriot Stanton Blatch Essay

Harriot Stanton Blatch Life and Accomplishments Harriot Stanton Blatch was a noteworthy woman of the nineteenth century. Born in 1856 to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the women's rights activist, it may be argued Harriot learned from her mother and followed in her footsteps to become a suffragette and advocate of gender equality (DuBois, 1999). Harriot was born in Seneca Falls, New York, the sixth of seven children (Anonymous, 2016). During her early years she received a good education, graduating from Vassar College in 1878 with a degree in mathematics (DuBois, 1999). She then went to Boston school for all Tory for one year, and a move to Germany where she worked as a tutor (DuBois, 1999). Following her return from England she met William Henry Blatch, who she married in 1882, and subsequently had two children. Unfortunately, one died at an early age, but the second; Laura Stanton Blatch Barney was to go on to become a suffragette (DuBois, 1999).

Harriot was exposed to ideas regarding women's rights and equality from an early age, and contributed to her mother's work. For example, in 1881, working with her mother she contributed to the publication "History of Woman Suffrage," and was a major contributor to the second volume (Clement,...

While living in England she undertook a study on the working conditions of women in more areas, for which she later received a master's degree from Vassar, as well as working with a number of social reform groups in England, including the women's franchise league, where she developed organisation skills, as well as the Fabian Society (Clement, 2002).
She is most known for her work in United States, which was undertaken after returning 1902. At this time the Suffrage movement in U.S. had lost its momentum. Initially she joined the Women's Trade Union League part of the leadership (DuBois, 1999). In 1907 she became more active, founding the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, which was later to become the Women's Political Union, an organisation targeting equality, by encouraging working-class women to join the women's rights movement. Harriet effectively engaged with, mobilise, working women, as seen with the 1910 New York Suffrage Parade, as well as many other militant street protests (Frost-Knappman and Cullen-DuPont, 2002). The union, which merged with other women's rights groups in 1915, actively lobbied for women's votes, being instrumental in New York in 1917. During the First World War Harriot supported the war…

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Anonymous, (2016). Harriot Stanton Blatch. [online] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/harriot-stanton-blatch-9215141

Clement, J. (2002). Harriot Stanton Blatch. [online] Available at: http://uudb.org/articles/harriotstantonblatch.html

DuBois, E C. (1999). Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. Yale University Press

Frost-Knappman, E., Cullen-DuPont, K., (2014). Women's Suffrage in America. New York, Infobase Publishing
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