October – Sam’s notebook: Eliz Cady Stanton & daughter gone to Europe to write “Woman’s Version of the Bible” [MTNJ 3: 261]
Note: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), pioneer suffragist was the primary editor of the two-volume The Woman’s Bible (1895), “a controversial analysis of the Bible’s disparaging depiction of women. Her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffrage leader, was not among those who assisted as members of the work’s ‘Revising Committee’” [n113].
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