Contributor Saylor Academy

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03-02-2015
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In this lesson, students are introduced to the initial stages of the women’s rights movement in America. Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women’s Right to Vote” and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions provide a backdrop for the later scholarly work of women like Margaret Fuller and the fiction of Elizabeth Stoddard (Lemorne Versus Hell). Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is read and examined as a characterization of the new American woman.