The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 1820. She was educated at a Friends boarding-school in Philadelphia, and then taught in NewYork state for 15 Anthony first com-menced her public careerin 1847, when she beganlecturing on 1851 she called a tem-perance convention ofwomen in Albany, and^^8,;.<tthe following year the ^ Womans New York;State Temperance Soci-ety was organized. In1857 she became prom-inent as an agitatorfor the abolition of slavery, and also, withothers, in securing the passage of the
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 1820. She was educated at a Friends boarding-school in Philadelphia, and then taught in NewYork state for 15 Anthony first com-menced her public careerin 1847, when she beganlecturing on 1851 she called a tem-perance convention ofwomen in Albany, and^^8,;.<tthe following year the ^ Womans New York;State Temperance Soci-ety was organized. In1857 she became prom-inent as an agitatorfor the abolition of slavery, and also, withothers, in securing the passage of the act ofthe New York legislature of i860 giving to mar-ried women the possession of their earnings andthe guardianship of their children. She wasinstrumental in obtaining for women the right tospeak, vote and serve on committees in educa-tional and other conventions, and her energieshave always been directed to secure equal civilrights for women. Since 1855 she has addressedannual appeals and petitions to the legislature,pleading for the cause of female suffrage, and in1867 she went t
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