The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
LIFE OF MISS ANTHONY.
The Book Is Expected to Be Out by
the 1st of April.
Truth.

the 1st of April.
Rochester Post Express.
A visitor to the home of Miss Susan b.
Anthony yesterday found that the much
respected leader of the suffrage movement
had gone to the dressmakers. Now, there
may be people, not knowing Miss Anthony
except by reputation, who cannot imagine
her giving time to anything so frivolous as
having dress made, but she does. In fact,
Miss Anthony is very particular about haV-
ing her gowns made well. She is fond or
rich materials plainly made, and she al
ways wears black, with white at the neck
and sleeves or in the front of her gown.
Mrs Ida Harper, who has been with Miss
Anthony the last year for the purpose Of
Anthony is now on the last chapter. 1t is
expected that the book will be out by the
LIST of April 1t will consist of two large
volumes copiously illustrated with numer-
portraits of Miss Anthony and her CO.
laborers, engravings of her different homes.
old Quaker Church and large number OF
letters and autographs of distinguished
men and women.
The work follows consecutively the. story
of Miss Anthony's life and work. The
early chapters describe her ancestry home,
childhood and life in Quaker boarding
school, the last told in her own quaint
letters and diaries. Later chapters depict
her experience as a teacher, related in her
letters written during those years; removal
to Rochester by canal in 1885, evolution
from the schooIroom into public life. Then
follow early laws for women; history of the
bloomer costume; canvass of the State of
New York IN a sleigh; antl-SlaVery Work,
with letters from Greeley, Gerrit Smith,
Garrison and others; campaigning with the
Garrisonians: the mobs, and letters from
Phillips, Curtis, Pillsbury, Iucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others; the
marriage question; the war; forming of the
Woman's Loyal League; reconstruction and
fight over fourteenth amendment; Kansas
campaign and George Francis Train; Nc
Farland- Richardson case; Victoria Wood
hull; attempt to vote, arrest and trial;
experience on Lyceum platform;
-
paigns, closing honors and tributes. In
fact 1T is a history of the evolution in the
status of woman, in which Miss Anthony
has been the central figure. 1t pictures the
struggle to secure the right for woman to
speak in public; first in behalf of the slave
then in the interest of temperance, and at
last for herself, to obtain laws that would
erty, her person and her children. Then
follow the long-continued efforts for equal
educational advantages and equal Industrial
opportunities; the last. and longest of ALL
the attempt to secure the citizens right to
vote.
Mrs. Harper was chosen to do the work
because of her literary ability and expert
ence, her knowledge of the historical
events described in the book and her full
sympathy with the cause to which Miss
Anthony life has been devoted. Mrs. Har-
per has figured prominently in the journal
ism of the West. and was, for a time man
aging editor of Western paper.
Miss AnthOny's book is coming out at a
good time, as the celebration next month
in Washington marks the fiftieth year since
the beginning of the suffrage movement
when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
Mott called the first woman's rights con-
Vention at Seneca Falls N Y