Any guesses which awesome feminist foremother was born on this day in 1815?

[redqueen]

She was born in Johnstown, New York.

She was active in the abolitionist movement before turning her efforts and energies to women's rights.

She had the word "obey" removed from her wedding vows.

She wrote The Woman's Bible.


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Elizabeth Cady Stanton!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Hmmmm,

Amelia Bloomer was the first to come to mind....When I saw your answer I checked....this is what I found....But I missed the Birthday


***Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born in Homer, New York on May 27th 1818. Very few women at the time had the chance to progress from a seamstress to a well-educated woman. Amelia Bloomer was fortunately able to gain such an education for two years. After then, she became a schoolteacher. In 1840, at age twenty-two Amelia Bloomer married lawyer, Dexter Bloomer. Even at this young age, Bloomer established a unique feminist philosophy as her wedding vows excluded the word “obey.”***

[redqueen]

2. Nice :)

I put another hint in... I thought about mentioning the Seneca Falls Convention but that's too obvious.

[ReRe]

3. I didn't cheat...

.. and my mind answered: "Katy Stanton". I knew there was another name but could not think of it.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Cool

I didn't guess right at all and then I was thinking Margaret Fox Fell one of the founders of the Quakers, and her 'Women's Speaking Justified' (which is one of my favorite smack downs of all time) and I knew THAT couldn't be right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fell

Women's Speaking Justified
(Very long, and very archaic language)
http://www.qhpress.org/texts/fell.html

[Recursion]

5. My favorite feminist

I <3 ECS