Lucretia Mott

ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...

Despite the restrictions placed on Americans at the Convention, it is likely that MR met there Lucretia Mott and Lydia Child . Nearly fifty years later, through Caroline Ashurst Biggs (editor of...

Her work for women's rights and racial equality in the United States led to relationships with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Harriet Tubman , Frederick Douglass , Susan B. Anthony , and Lucretia Mott .

While in the USA they met like-minded people, including Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison .

In BostonMC met Julia Ward Howe and Lucretia Mott . At Howard College she was introduced by Frederick Douglass , an old friend.

The United States was more generous in its praise than England, or at any rate than London. Benjamin Lundy , William Lloyd Garrison , Frederick Douglass , and Lucretia Mott all admired her, and for...

AS was politically outraged by the treatment of Lucretia Mott and others who had travelled from the USA to attend the London Anti-Slavery Convention, and were told that women could not be admitted to the...

HBS was drawn into debates about abolition during the 1830s but failed to become radicalized or to see the feminist implications perceived by other abolitionists such as the Grimkésisters , Elizabeth Cady Stanton ...

In June 1840, MR attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson , Amelia Opie , and Lady Byron . She was the only Scotswoman present.MR was shocked...

MASC , who had long been an advocate of women's rights and suffrage, became more actively involved in supporting these movements after the Civil War. In 1878 she was invited by Susan B. Anthony and...

Her authors run from Jane Austen and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Martineau . Elizabeth Fry , Mary Carpenter , and Florence Nightingale represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville science, and...

Here EF relates the story of her lecture tours in the USA, with her meetings with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Lucretia Mott , and others. Her survey of the situation of American...

RHD touches on public matters too. She keenly recalls the prejudice against Abolitionists in the period leading up to the Civil War, and records a glancing contact with John Brown , and her impressions of...