The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ofind that the hope, of study at Union colege, whichshe had secretly cherished, in order to fill her broth-ers place, could not be fulfilled. Great was hergrief at this discriminat
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ofind that the hope, of study at Union colege, whichshe had secretly cherished, in order to fill her broth-ers place, could not be fulfilled. Great was hergrief at this discrimination on account of her sex,which was intensified by being sent to Mrs. Wil-lards seminary at Troy, where she spent two of thedreariest years of her life. The next seven years shepassed at home, reading widely, and devoting es-pecial attention to law under her fathers this way she became familiar with the laws of hercountry, and fitted herself to become the opponentof oppressive legislation regarding women. In 1840she married Henry B. Stanton, already well knownas a leader and lecturer in the anti-slavery move-ment. Jlr. Stanton being a delegate to the WorldsAnti-Slaveiy convention held in London in June,1840, they went to that city on their wedding her indignation was stirred anew by the im-putation of inferiority cast upon women by therefusal to admit Mrs. Mott and other American women. who had been regularly appointed delegates. InMrs. Mott she met for the first time a liberal-mindedthinker among her own sex, and the friendship thusbegun continued through forty years, and assistedin determining Mrs. Stanton to devote her life andenergies to the social, political and moral elevationof women. For six years following her return homeshe lived in Boston, during which time she made athorough and historical study of the position ofwomen, the result of which was that, in addition tothe rights claimed by Mrs. Mott—to more remuner-ative work, to hold property a
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