Prelude to Seneca Falls: an Analysis of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Prior to the Convention

Certain early experiences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton prepared her for leadership in the women's rights movement beginning with the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848 in New York. These crucial experiences included her childhood religious training and adolescent struggles of faith, the tensions in her marriage to abolitionist Henry Stanton, and her friendship with Lucretia Mott. [G. R. Schroeder-Lein]