The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years - A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women, Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press, in Three Volumes

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company / The Hollenbeck Press, 1898. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1899 reprint of first volume, 1898 first printing of second volume, 1908 first printing of third volume. Former library copies with usual marks, spines of volumes 1 and 2 toned, boards of each volume soiled, boards of volume 3 foxed, front hinges of two volumes weakening. Complete three volume set. xxiv, 513, [1]; xi, [2], 515-1070; xvii, [1], 1111-1633, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the important advocate for women's suffrage, with transcripts of speeches and correspondence. Illustrated with portraits, pictures of homes, etc. Included here is the third volume, often lacking because it was printed nearly ten years after the first two. Susan B. Anthony collaborated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in efforts to abolish slavery and secure equal rights for women. Anthony's arrest in 1872 for violation of voting laws was an important event in the push for suffrage, though it would still take almost fifty more years before the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. She is considered a very important figure in the history of Rochester, New York, where she spent much of her life. She is buried there at Mount Hope Cemetery, and each year advocates for equal rights visit her grave to honor her advocacy and activism.