Matilda Joslyn Gage
Also known as Matilda Electa Joslyn
American abolitionist, writer
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- Born
- 1826
- Died
- 1898
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- 9
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- Speech of Matilda Joslyn Gage at the Woman's National Liberal Convention, February 24th, 1890
- Women, church and state
- History of Woman Suffrage
- History of Woman Suffrage (1887)
- Dangers of the Hour
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Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought. She is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention. She influenced her son-in-law L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
She was the youngest speaker at the 1852 National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse, New York. Along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gage helped found the National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869. During 1878–1881, she published and edited the National Citizen, a paper devoted to the cause of women. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, she was for years in the forefront of the suffrage movement, and collaborated with them in writing the first three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1887). She was the author of the Woman's Rights Catechism (1868); Woman as Inventor (1870); Who Planned the Tennessee Campaign (1880); and Woman, Church and State (1893).
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1826 births1898 deaths19th-century American women writers19th-century American writersActivists for Native American rightsActivists from Syracuse, New YorkAmerican anti-abortion activistsAmerican critics of ChristianityAmerican feministsAmerican foundersAmerican Indigenous rights activistsAmerican suffragists