biography
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Blatch, Harriet Eaton
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née Stanton
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| female
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| lived:
| (1856–1940)
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| biography:
| Women's rights activist, born in Seneca Falls, New York, USA. The daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she studied at Vassar College (1878), then collaborated with her mother and Susan B Anthony on compiling their History of Woman Suffrage (6 vols, 1881–1922). Upon marrying an Englishman, she lived in England (1882–92), where she became involved in women's suffrage and other progressive causes and befriended many of the leading British socialists. When she and her husband moved to the USA, she launched her own suffrage organization, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (1907). It was renamed the Women's Political Union in America (1908) and later merged with the Congressional Union (1916). During World War 1 she organized women in support of America's role in the war, and afterwards wrote A Woman's Point of View (1920), in which she called on women to work to prevent future wars. She continued to support liberal causes, including an Equal Rights Amendment for women and the League of Nations, and in the 1920s ran unsuccessfully as a political candidate for the Socialist Party. Her bluntness, militancy, and insistence on her own goals often left her on the fringe of mainstream movements. |
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