mother; first factory built.
CHAPTER II
GIRLHOOD AND SCHOOL LIFE. (1826-1838.), 17-31
Removal to Battenville, N.Y.; manufacturing business; temperance and
labor questions; new house; Susan's factory experience; Quaker
discipline; the home school; first teaching; boarding-school life;
Susan's letters and journals.
CHAPTER III.
FINANCIAL CRASH--THE TEACHER. (1838-1845.), 33-46
The panic; father's letters; teaching at Union Village; the home
sacrificed; life at Center Falls; more Quaker discipline; teaching at
New Rochelle; Miss Anthony's letters on slavery, temperance, medical
practice, Van Buren, etc.; teaching at Center Falls, Cambridge and Fort
Edward; proposals of marriage; removal to Rochester, N. Y.
CHAPTER IV.
THE FARM HOME--END OP TEACHING. (1845-1850.), 47-55
Journey to Rochester; the farm home and life; teaching in Canajoharie;
a devotee of fashion; death of Cousin Margaret; weary of the
school-room; early temperance work; first public address; return home;
end of teaching.
CHAPTER V.
ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE. (1850-1852.), 57-80
Conditions leading to a public career; her home the center of
reformers; temperance festival; first meeting with the Fosters, Mrs.
Stanton, Mrs. Bloomer, Lucy Stone, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley;
women silenced in men's temperance meeting at Albany, hold one of their
own; advice from Greeley and Mrs. Stanton; first Woman's State
Temperance Convention; men's State Temperance Convention in Syracuse
rejects women delegates; Rev. Samuel J. May and Rev. Luther Lee stand
by the women; Miss Anthony as temperance agent; her appeal to women;
attends her first Woman's Rights Convention at Syracuse; criticises
decollete dress; letters and speeches of Stanton, Mayo, Stone, Brown,
Nichols, Rose, Gage, Gerrit Smith, etc.; Bible controversy; vicious
comment of Syracuse Star, N.Y. Herald, Rev. Byron Sunderland, etc.;
platform of Human Rights.
CHAPTER VI.
TEMPERANCE AND TEACHERS' CONVENTIONS. (1852-1853.), 81-105
Women's first appearance before Albany Legislature; Miss Anthony, Rev.
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