Attached are excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902) on the matter of the 1850s Women’s Suffrage Movement and the garment that the suffragettes were prone to wearing – Bloomers:.
“People would stare, many make rude remarks, boys follow in crowds, with jeers and laughter, so that gentlemen in attendance would feel it their duty to show fight, unless they had sufficient self-control to show the even tenor of their way…”.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a member of the Unitarian religion…
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1850s Womens Suffrage MovementBLOOMER FASHION 1850Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer Friendship 1849Reaction to Amelia Bloomer and Her Bloomers 1849Bloomers and the Womens Suffrage 1849Bloomers as Suffrage Fashion1850s Women's Suffrage Movement historyElizabeth Cady Stanton magazine articleAmelia Bloomer magazine articleAmelia Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Suffrage Movement of the 1850s
1850s Womens Suffrage MovementBLOOMER FASHION 1850Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer Friendship 1849Reaction to Amelia Bloomer and Her Bloomers 1849Bloomers and the Womens Suffrage 1849Bloomers as Suffrage Fashion1850s Women's Suffrage Movement historyElizabeth Cady Stanton magazine articleAmelia Bloomer magazine articleAmelia Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Suffrage Movement of the 1850s
