Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was a founder of the woman suffrage movement. By the 1840s, Stanton was a well known proponent of women’s rights, working as a lecturer and helping to secure married women’s property rights in New York in 1848. That same year, she and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, where Stanton introduced her Declaration of Sentiments. In the early 1850s, Stanton began working with Susan B. Anthony on suffrage and women’s rights issues, a partnership that would continue for...