Miriam Gurko (1910–1988)

Miriam Gurko was inspired to write this when she listened to young feminists commenting that American women had never complained about their lot before the 1960s. Contrary to what I expected from the title, this does not focus solely on the Seneca Falls convention. It follows the ladies who organized it, plus Susan B. Anthony, through the rest of their active and activist lives. The movement split painfully as they disagreed on tactics and priorities, but by the death of the longest-lived Susan B. Anthony, suffrage, originally shocking if not downright blasphemous had become a respectable cause. The modern, late twentieth century movement would pick up with many of the same issues.

A well-written and very informative book that I would recommend to anyone interested in the topic. It deserves to be a classic.… (meer)