Harriot Stanton Blatch

Harriot Eaton Blatch (née Stanton; January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Biography

Harriot Eaton Stanton was born, the sixth of seven children, in Seneca Falls, New York, to social activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Brewster Stanton. She attended Vassar College, where she graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1878. She attended the Boston School for Oratory for a year, and then spent most of 1880–81 in Germany as a tutor for young girls.

On her return voyage to the United States in May 1882, she met English businessman William Henry Blatch, Jr., known as "Harry Blatch". The two were married on 15 November 1882 at the Unitarian Chapel in Little Portland Street, Westminster. They lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire, for twenty years, where Harry was Brewery Manager of Basingstoke brewery, John May & Co.

They had two daughters, the second of whom died at age four. Their first daughter, Nora Stanton Barney, continued the family tradition as a suffragist, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering, and was briefly married to Lee de Forest, before entering a longer second marriage. Harry Blatch died in 1915, after being accidentally electrocuted.

In 1881, Harriot Stanton worked with her mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony on the History of Woman Suffrage. She contributed a major chapter to the second volume, in which she included the history of the American Woman Suffrage Association, a rival of Stanton and Anthony's National Woman Suffrage Association. This action helped to reconcile the two organizations.