The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : : An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906 / / ed. by Ann D. Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• HerausgeberIn: Gordon, Ann D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (700 p.) :; 40 illustrations

The "hush" of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, "it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home." Volume VI of this extraordinary series of selected papers is inescapably about endings, death, and silence. But death happens here to women still in the fight. An Awful Hush is about reformers trained "in the school of anti-slavery" trying to practice their craft in the age of Jim Crow and a new American Empire. It recounts new challenges to "an aristocracy of sex," whether among the bishops of the Episcopal church, the voters of California, or the trustees of the University of Rochester. And it sends last messages about woman suffrage. As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, "Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey." With the publication of Volume VI, this series is now complete.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editorial Practice -- Abbreviations -- 19-20 december 1895- 21-22 December 1895 -- 14 January 1896- 24 december 1896 -- 4 January 1897- 27 December 1897 -- 1 January 1898- 23 December 1898 -- 1 January 1899- 29 November 1899 -- 2 February 1900-28 December 1900 -- 1 January 1901- 15 December 1901 -- 20 January 1902- 22 December 1902 -- 26 January 1903- 15 December 1903 -- 4 January 1904- 22 December 1904 -- 3 January 1905- 8 December 1905 -- 3 January 1906- 13 March 1906 -- Index