Work based on a photograph of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her shawl and her good friend Susan B. Anthony sitting in Ms. Stanton's garden.
Ms. Stanton was among those who organized the first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. During the convention she wrote and introduced, "The Declaration of Sentiments," in which she enumerated the rights of women just as Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence" had enumerated the rights of men.
Although she was the mother of seven children she prolifically wrote hundreds of articles, pamphlets and books that were widely acclaimed by many admirers. Convinced that patriarchal religions relegated women to a life of subservience, she wrote a "Woman's Bible." onsequently, the male establishment accused her of blasphemy and many of her followers felt that she had gone too far.
Deliberately ignored thereafter, the more conservative Susan B. Anthony was alternatively lionized for her indefatigable push for suffrage. Ms. Anthony would no doubt have been the first to admit that without the profound and eloquent voice of her dear friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton the suffrage movement would have been significantly diminished.
