Lucy Stone

Also known as Lucy Stone Blackwell

American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)

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Born: 1818
Died: 1893
Works: 18

Top works

Woman's rights tracts
The parents' guide for the transmission of desired qualities to offspring, and childbirth made easy
A woman suffrage catechism
Instructions to women who desire to vote for school committees
The gains forty years at the fortieth anniversary of the first national woman's rights convention, celebrated in Boston, Mass., Jan. 27 and 28, 1891

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Type: Group
Country: GB
Active from: 1962

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Listeners: 936
Total plays: 4,162

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5 total works indexed

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Welcome to the Tidyverse
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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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Quotes

“This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.”
“Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?”
“We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.”
“Too much has already been said and written about "women's sphere". Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”
“I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.”
“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1818-08-13 ) August 13, 1818, West Brookfield , Massachusetts , U.S.
Died: October 18, 1893 (1893-10-18) (aged 75), Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater: Oberlin College (BA)
Known for: Abolitionist , Suffragist , Women's rights activist
Spouse: Henry Browne Blackwell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 1, 1855</span>"}]]}'>1855 )
Children: Alice Stone Blackwell

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date of birth: 1818-08-13
date of death: 1893-10-18
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name in native language: Lucy Stone

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Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and campaigned against slavery. Stone was known for using her birth name, after marriage, contrary to the custom of women taking their husband's surname.

Stone's organizational activities for the cause of women's rights yielded tangible gains in the difficult political environment of the 19th century. Stone helped initiate the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she supported and sustained it, annually, along with a number of other local, regional, and state activist conventions. Stone spoke in front of a number of legislative bodies, to promote laws giving more rights to women. She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the local and state levels.