Matilda Joslyn Gage
1826-1898. American feminist. Political activist, suffragist, writer, historian, editor, and more.
Editor of The National Citizen and Ballot Box journal. Founder and president of the Women's National Liberal Union (WNLU). White activist for Native American rights, who was influenced by Iroquois culture in her political analysis.
Joanna Russ called her "our most brilliant nineteenth-century theorist" [1].
According to Dale Spender, Gage's contributions to The History of Woman Suffrage "make Stanton look less than really radical, and Anthony positively reactionary." [2]
Quotes
Motto, now engrave on her tombstone:
- "There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home or Heaven. That word is Liberty."
Bibliography
Books
- Woman as Inventor (1870)
- The History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1, (1881) (first two and last two chapters)
- Woman, Church and State (1893)
Articles
Numerous essays and opinion papers, to be listed here.