In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith

Author:Elisabeth Griffith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Criticism, on kindle, Social Justice & Civil Rights, Nonfiction, Feminism & Feminist Theory, History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1985-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Of all their speakers, she seemed to me to have the most weight. Her speeches are models of composition, clear, compact, elegant and logical. She makes her points with peculiar sharpness and certainty, and there is no denying or dodging her conclusions… . [She is] now impassioned, now playful, now witty, now pathetic… . Mrs. Stanton has the best arts of the politician and the training of the jurist, added to the fiery, unresting spirit of the reformer. She has a rare talent for affairs, management, and mastership. Yet she is in an eminent degree womanly, having an almost regal pride of sex.47

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