Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has received more than 2,550,363 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the 1,915th most popular writer (up from 2,540th in 2019), the 2,483rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,252nd in 2019) and the 225th most popular American Writer.