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Harriot Stanton Blatch
[edit]Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was an American writer, suffragist, and the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[1]
Early Life
[edit]Harriot Eaton Stanton was born on January 20th, 1856 in Seneca Falls, New York to the prominent suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton. She was the sixth of eight children. She attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and graduated in 1878 with a degree in mathematics.
Harriot resented a great deal of her experience at Vassar and would often call it "a slow of despond"[2] and "an institution composed entirely of a disfranchised class which was definitely discouraged by the authorities from taking any interest whatsoever in its own political freedom.”[2] Harriot was accustomed to an environment that encouraged discussion on a broad range of topics and finding this lacking at Vassar, decided to change it. She was a supporter of Samuel J. Tilden, the 1876 Democratic presidential candidate. In order to encourage others to support him, she formed the Democratic Club. “This was the first time,” she later claimed, “politics had crossed the sacred threshold of this higher institution of learning. Our stirring appeals to non-voters for their indirect influence ended just before election day with a Tilden parade through the corridors of Old Main led by a vibrant comb and harp corps.”[2] Upon her graduation from Vassar, President Raymond was extravagant in his praise for Harriot, telling her mother that he had 'rarely ever come in contact with such a clear, thinking, active, brilliant mind."[3]
Once finished with Vassar she attended the Boston School for Oratory for a year, and then spent most of 1880-81 in Germany as a tutor for young girls.[4]
On her return voyage to the United States, she met English businessman William Henry Blatch, Jr., known as "Harry Blatch". The two were married in 1882, and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire for twenty years, where Harry was Brewery Manager of Basingstoke brewery, John May & Co. Upon her marriage to Henry Blatch, Harriot would lose her U.S. citizenship due to the
Harriot and Harry had two daughters, the second of whom died at age four. Their first daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, continued the family tradition as a suffragist, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering, and was briefly married to Lee de Forest, before entering a longer second marriage. Harry Blatch died in 1915, after being accidentally electrocuted.
Years Abroad
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Suffrage Work in New York
[edit]War and Post War
[edit]Later Years and Death
[edit]See Also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Perry, Marilyn Elizabeth (2000-02). Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856-1940), woman suffrage leader. American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c "Harriot Stanton Blatch - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College". vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
- ^ DuBois, Ellen Carol (1997). Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. United States of America: Yale University Press. p. 30. ISBN 0-300-06562-0.
- ^ "MRS. BLATCH DEAD; FAMED SUFFRAGIST; Leader Here of Radical Wing of Movement, Champion of Woman's Rights, 84 FIRST TO PLAN PARADES Associate in England of Sylvia Pankhurst--A Daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton". Retrieved 2018-11-27.