"An Evening of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Solitude of Self"
Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, and Jan Freeman
5–6:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the great visionary suffragists of the nineteenth century, had a philosophical cast of mind equal to that of Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone De Beauvoir. She saw in the struggle for women's rights the human condition writ large. Her last public speech, "The Solitude of Self," is imbued with the kind of existential insight that acts as a bridge between her time and our own.
Vivian Gornick, a 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, will read from her recent book on Stanton, and Jan Freeman from the speech itself.
Presented by the Radcliffe Fellowship Program and the Schlesinger Library
