Presents a biographical sketch of Martha Coffin Wright of Auburn, New York, a woman whom Elizabeth Cady Stanton referred to as one of the five 'movers and managers' of the 1848 Seneca Falls women's rights convention. The article begins with a discussion of Wright's early years and the influence of her mother's strength while running both the family home and business after Wright's father's early death. Other influences included her Quaker upbringing, which dictated strength in the individual and gendered equality in education. Wright also learned about rebellion, and in 1848 she was one of just several attendees at the first meeting of a group of women who conceptualized and then implemented the women's rights convention in Seneca Falls that year. Wright went on to become president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and remained a women's rights movement leader until her death in 1875. [S. G. Hellman]
