Schlesinger Library

OverviewStatisticsSubjectsWorks List

Pages That Mention National Woman's Rights Convention

Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1815-1961. Diaries. 1853-1856, with scattered later entries, most n.d. A-143, folder 8. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

(seq. 4)
Indexed

(seq. 4)

[1]

[1853]

During the three weeks following the National Woman's Rights Convention held at Cleveland, Oct. 5, 6 & 7th 1853, I travelled through the Southern tier of Counties in N. Y. State, & held meetings in some eight or ten different villages. I talked upon the subject of Temperance.

One year previous to this Miss Emily Clark of Le Roy, N. Y. had passed over the same ground, Lecturing upon the same subject, & had aided the Ladies of several of the villages in forming Women's Temperance Societies. In every place, except Elmira, those societies had never existed after the evening of their beginning. The reason given, by very nearly all the ladies with whom I conversed, for the failure of their societies, was Woman's want of time & money to meet their demands.

Their Temperance meetings could be made interesting &

Last edit over 1 year ago by madeleinemurphy6
Displaying 1 page