Beschreibung:

sixth plate anonymous portrait of Matilda Gage and young daughter in red-tinted dress holding a stuffed animal in her hand, inscribed in period pencil behind image on case with Matilda Joslyn Gage/at 21 or 22/Helen L. Gage/her oldest daughter/at 3 or 4/Debarha ???/June 1853. Mounted in floral embossed leather covered wooden case. Gage (1826-1898) was co-author with Stanton and Anthony of the History of Women Suffrage, and one of the more radical members of the movement. With her anti-slavery background and college education, she believed that the rights of all people were intertwined and was one of the few who spoke out against the treatment of the Native American population of the country. Her radical position eventually alienated her from nearly all of her suffrage allies and the history books tend to ignore her importance to the suffrage movement and human rights movement in general. One of the few women who stood beside Gage when she took on her unpopular battle against the Church which she blamed for opposing suffrage for women was Lillie Devereux Blake, another of the major figures in the National Women's Suffrage Association. Later Blake's daughter Catherine said of Matilda Joslyn Gage: Mrs. Gage was a tireless student, a fine research worker, thorough in all she undertook; she had a deep sense of justice and at times an appalling frankness of speech - which I loved! One was never in doubt as to where Mrs. Gage stood...She was absolutely honest in all her dealings, and I would take her word at any time as against anybody else's. I always loved and admired her greatly. I think that in some ways she was the greatest of those (suffrage leaders.) Someone should write an adequate life of this great leader. Condition: Very minor tiny background spots and slight solar ring, VG.