Susan B. Anthony Archives

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Garden Metaphor on the Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association

This sculpture by Gillian Wearing commemorates Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), a prominent British suffragist who tirelessly campaigned for women's right to vote.

“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.” May 15, 1869 On this day, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York. As part of…