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Article: Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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By Leila R. Brammer. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 136 pp. $58.00.
There is no question that Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was an important leader of the woman's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. She was involved in some of the earliest women's rights conventions, helped found and lead the National Woman Suffrage Association and the Women's National Liberal League, and was intimately involved in cases where women claimed a constitutional right to vote. Moreover, she was a prolific writer and an intellectual leader of the movement, outdistancing even Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her radical analysis of the plight of women.
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