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^ 429 tive with the suffrage movement in the 1890s,she later presided over the California Equal Suffrage Association at the time of victory in the state in 1911. (American Women; Julia Schlesinger, Workers in the Vineyard: A Review of the Progress of Spiritualism, Biographical Sketches, Lectures, Essays and Poems [San Francisco, 1896], 121–32; Yvonne Jacobson, “Champion of Suffrage: Elizabeth Lowe Watson, 1843–1927,” San José Studies 19 [Spring 1993]: 8–22.) Watson and her daughter, Lucretia Estelle Watson Taylor (1873–1913), known as Lulu, hosted a celebration of SBA’s birthday. Taylor had been a student at the University of California when she joined the amendment campaign of 1896, and she went on to work in the campaign of 1911. In 1899, she married Benjamin Grant Taylor, then a law student, and continued to live for a time with her mother. (Robert Whitaker, One Woman’s Worth: The Story of Lucretia Watson Taylor [n.p., n.d]; Directory of Graduates of the University of California, 1864–1916 [Berkeley, Calif., 1916], 41.) 2. SBA was recuperating by the sea. Louise James nursed her through three weeks of extreme bronchitis at her home in Philadelphia, and then, on 22 March 1902, she took SBA to Atlantic City for two weeks, staying at Haddon Hall, a small boardinghouse. 3. Founded in 1877,the New Century Club had extensive programs for working women and research on laws affecting all women, but advocacy of woman suffrage fell outside of its purposes. The club’s Political Science Section hosted the late afternoon reception for several hundred people at the clubhouse on South Twelfth Street on April 9. (Film, 42:621.) 4. Shakespeare, Othello, act 1, sc. 3, l. 80. 5. Lewia C. Hannibal Smith (1811–1909), better known as Mrs. L. C. Smith, moved to Rochester as a widow in the 1850s and became a local activist. At her ninety-fourth birthday party, SBA called her “the champion worker in the way of begging money in this city.” (Federal Census, 1880; History, 3:413; Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change, 208, 210–11, 214; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 14 June 1905, Film, 44:561; Garland Cemetery, Clarkson, N.Y., tombstone transcription on-line.) ••••••••• 204 • ECS to Clara Bewick Colby [New York, 8 April 1902] 1 Dear Mrs.Colby—I have just received a very remarkable letter from Susan. She had been staying for a week or two in Atlantic City at one of the hotels since destroyed by fire. She awoke one night in the midst of a very vivid dream of being burned alive with no possible escape. 2 On rising the next morning she told her dream to a niece who was with 1 april 1902 430 & her, and said she was going to pack her trunk immediately after breakfast and leave for Philadelphia, which she fortunately did. She is coming here on the 18th of April to make me a visit. 3 U Elizabeth Cady Stanton Y Woman’s Tribune, 12 April 1902. 1. An editor’s introduction supplied the date. 2. SBA’s premonition of fire cut short her stay in Atlantic City with Louise Mosher and took them back to Philadelphia on April 2. In the morning of April 3 fire swept through the crowded frame buildings along the boardwalk, destroying thirteen hotels and twenty-seven other businesses. Trains brought extra fire equipment from Phildelphia and Camden, New Jersey, to help the local volunteer companies. (New York Tribune, 4 April 1902; SBA to Jessie Anthony, 4 April 1902, Film, 42:610–15; Franklin W. Kemp, Firefighting by the Seashore: A History of the Atlantic City Fire Department, December 3, 1874–March 1, 1972 [Atlantic City,N.J., 1972], 168–70, 183–84, 497–98.) 3. Plans called for SBA to spend a week with ECS. (SBA to Clara Barton, 29 March 1902, Film, 42:592–94.) ••••••••• 205 • Article by ECS [20 April 1902] A Defence of Woman’s Tears I cannot agree with Professor Mélinand on many points mentioned in his article, 1 and I am very glad to say that I have not found that all men, women and children are such artificial beings. Professor Mélinand says “that, when we weep at the theatre at the sight of a strong dramatical situation, we do this without feeling actual deep emotion, because we instinctively imitate the actor.” To this I must object very strongly. I have often been moved to tears in the theatre without crying for any...

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