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Harriot Stanton Blatch
 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton holding her daughter Harriot in 1856.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton with daughter Harriot, 1856.

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856 – 1940) was the second daughter and sixth child of Elizabeth Cady and Henry Stanton. She was born in the family home at 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls on January 20, 1856. After graduating from Vassar College in 1878 she went on a lecturing circuit with her mother and helped write Volume II of the History of Woman Suffrage. In 1882 she married William Blatch and they lived in England until 1902. After returning to the States, Blatch joined the Women’s Trade Union League, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded the Equity League of Self-Supporting Women, and later the Women’s Political Union and the National Woman’s Party. She supported the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

 
Harriot Stanton Blatch giving a speech in a crowd of men wearing hats.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
 
Harriot Stanton Blatch
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
Harriot Stanton Blatch giving a speech in NYC
Harriot Stanton Blatch continued the fight
Ellen DuBois, her biographer, will explain all about it in July
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Two-story red brick house where Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clitnock lived.
Visit a station on the Underground Railroad!
Learn more about the M'Clintock family and their home
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Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention, as it appears today.  

Did You Know?
Did you know the women's rights movement formally began in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York?
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Last Updated: February 28, 2008 at 12:03 EST