A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights

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Notes Abbreviations sources GFP Garrison Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton , Massachusetts. HWS Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage. 2 vols. 1881. Reprint (6 vols.), Salem, N.H.: Ayer, 1985. All quotations that appear in the text are from the reprint edition. OFP Osborne Family Papers, Department of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York. S/A 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840–1866. Vol. 1 of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Edited by Ann D. Gordon. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997. S/A 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873. Vol. 2 of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Edited by Ann D. Gordon. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. 238 notes to pages 1–2 S/A 3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880. Vol. 3 of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Edited by Ann D. Gordon. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. S/A-MF Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Edited by Patricia G. Holland and Ann D. Gordon. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1991. Microfilm. people DW David Wright ECS Elizabeth Cady Stanton EWG Ellen Wright Garrison EWO Eliza Wright Osborne FW Frank Wright FPW Fanny Pell Wright LCM Lucretia Coffin Mott MCW Martha Coffin (Pelham) Wright MPM Marianna Pelham Mott PP Peter Pelham SBA Susan B. Anthony WLG William Lloyd Garrison WLG Jr. William Lloyd Garrison Jr. WPW William Pelham Wright Introduction 1. The historic Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments is quoted in HWS, S/A 1: 78, and numerous other sources. 2. The official Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848 was published in Rochester in 1848. The full text also appeared in the Seneca County Courier, Aug. 4, 1848. It was reprinted in 1870 and appears in S/A 1:75. 3. MCW to LCM, Oct. 1, 1848, GFP. 239 notes to pages 3–8 4. Memoir of MCW written by her daughter Eliza Wright Osborne, GFP and OFP. 5. S/A 1:75. 6. Judith Wellman, “The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks,” Journal of Women’s History 3 (Spring 1991): 1071. 7. Robert E. Riegel, American Feminists (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1968), 23–24. 8. MCW to LCM, Jan. 29, 1854, GFP. 9. Gerda Lerner, The Female Experience: An American Documentary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977); Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990); Nancy F. Cott et al., eds., Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996). 10. MCW to LCM, Sept. 8, 1855, GFP. 11. ECS to MCW, Mar. 2, 1868, GFP, and S/A-MF. Chapter 1 1. See Anthony’s biographical entry of Martha Wright in Johnson’s New Universal Cyclopedia in S/A-MF, and Stanton’s unpublished memorial of Martha in OFP. Martha probably seldom spoke of her Boston birthplace, since most of her childhood was spent in Philadelphia, where the family moved before her third birthday. 2. The history of the Coffin family on Nantucket, including Thomas Coffin’s eventful journey on the Trial, is told in Will Gardner, The Coffin Saga (Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1949), and in Louis Coffin, The Coffin Family, Nantucket Historical Society (1962). See also Margaret Hope Bacon, Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott (New York: Walker, 1980); and Otelia Cromwell, Lucretia Mott (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1958). 3. For a history of the Quakers in America, see Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost, The Quakers (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988). For their role in the early antislavery movement, see James Brewer Stewart, Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976). In Mothers of Feminism (San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1986), Margaret Hope Bacon explores the pioneer role that many Quaker women played in the woman’s movement in America. 240 notes to pages 9–12 4. The American Revolution had left Spain very concerned about its ability to defend...