Harriot Stanton Blatch
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| Born |
Harriot Eaton Stanton January 20, 1856 Seneca Falls, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 20, 1940 (aged 84) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, suffragist |
| Spouse(s) | William Henry Blatch, Jr. (m. 1882-1915) |
| Children | 2 (including Nora Stanton Blatch Barney) |
| Parent(s) |
Henry Brewster Stanton Elizabeth Cady |
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was an American writer, suffragist, and the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Harriot Eaton Stanton was born, the sixth of seven children, in Seneca Falls, New York, to social activists Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She attended Vassar College, where she graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1878. She attended the Boston School for Oratory for a year, and then spent most of 1880-81 in Germany as a tutor for young girls.
On her return voyage to the United States, she met English businessman William Henry Blatch, Jr., known as "Harry Blatch". The two were married in 1882, and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire for twenty years, where Harry was Brewery Manager of Basingstoke brewery, John May & Co.
They had two daughters, the second of whom died at age four. Their first daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, continued the family tradition as a suffragist, was the first American woman to earn a degree in civil engineering, and was briefly married to Lee de Forest. Harry Blatch died in 1915, after being accidentally electrocuted.
In 1881, Harriot Stanton worked with her mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony on the History of Woman Suffrage. She contributed a major chapter to the second volume, in which she included the history of the American Woman Suffrage Association, a rival of Stanton and Anthony's National Woman Suffrage Association. This action would help to reconcile the two organizations.
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