Born: January 20 1856,
Died: November 20 1940
Country most active: United States
Also known as: United States, United Kingdom
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1856, Jan. 20 Born, Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1878 Graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1879-1880 Attended Boston School of Oratory, Boston, Mass.
1880-1881 Traveled abroad as tutor and companion to young girls
1882 Married William Henry Blatch (died 1915)
1882-1902 Lived in Basingstoke, England
1894 M.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1902 Returned to United States with family
1907 Founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (name changed to Women’s Political Union in 1910); served as president, 1907-1915
1913 Joined the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and helped devise strategy to defeat Democratic candidates in the 1914 congressional election
1917 Aided in bringing together the Congressional Union (with which the Women’s Political Union had merged in 1916) and the National Woman’s Party
Headed speakers bureau, United States Food Administration
Director, Woman’s Land Army for farm labor
1918 Published Mobilizing Woman-Power. New York: Womans Press
1920 Published A Woman’s Point of View; Some Roads to Peace. New York: Womans Press
1922 Published with Theodore Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary, and Reminiscences. New York: Harper & Brothers
1940 Published with Alma Lutz Challenging Years; the Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
1940, Nov. 20 Died, New York, N.Y.
The following is excerpted from Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company.
American reformer, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Vassar College in 1878, studied in Berlin and Paris, and in 1882 married Henry Blatch, an Englishman. She took a prominent part during her twenty years’ residence in England in the work of the Fabian Society, of the Women’s Industrial Union, and of woman’s suffrage organizations. Her studies of English village life carried on with Charles Booth were embodied in a thesis for which she received a master’s degree from Vassar in 1893. Since her return to America she has carried on her mother’s work for the improvement of the legal status of women.