On this day in 1815, Elizabeth Cady is born into a prominent family in Johnstown, New York. She would go on to become a well-known advocate for women’s rights.
“[Elizabeth] was arguably the most important female activist-intellectual of [her] era,” biographer Lori Ginzberg writes, “and one of her generation’s most charismatic leaders.”
Elizabeth’s discontent with the status quo began early: Her gender put artificial limits on her education, which she found upsetting. She yearned for more opportunity and would have leapt at the chance to go to college.
She had to instead content herself with attending a female seminary.
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