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_Philadelphia Press_ and other publications. In 1866 she married
Greenfill Blake of New York. In 1872 Mrs. Blake published "Fettered
for Life," a novel designed to show the legal disadvantages of
women. Ever since she became interested in the suffrage movement
Mrs. Blake has been one of the most ardent advocates. She has taken
several lecturing tours in different States of the Union. Mrs.
Blake is an easy speaker and writer, and of late has contributed to
many of our popular magazines. Much of the recent work in the New
York legislature is due to her untiring zeal.

[218] Mrs. Jennie McAdam, Mrs. Hester Poole, Charlotte Coleman,
Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Morse and others. A month before, January 23, Miss
Anthony was invited to address the commission, giving her
constitutional argument, showing woman's right to vote under the
fourteenth amendment. Hon. Henry R. Selden was in the audience,
being in the city on Miss Anthony's case. At the close of her
argument he said: "If I had heard that speech before, I could have
made a stronger plea before Judge Hall this morning."

[219] She was escorted to the capitol by Phoebe H. Jones and the
venerable Lydia Mott, who for a quarter of a century had
entertained at their respective homes the various speakers that had
come to Albany to plead for new liberties, and had accompanied
them, one after another, to the halls of legislation.

[220] Addressed by Mrs. Wilbour, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Lozier, Mrs.
Hallock, Hamilton Wilcox and Dr. Hallock.

[221] For Judge Hunt's decision, see Volume II., page 677.

[222] Miss Charlotte C. Jackson, the valedictorian of the Normal
College of New York; Miss Mary Hussey of Orange, New Jersey; Miss
Mosher of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Miss Emma Wendt, daughter of
Mathilde Wendt. In 1867, Mrs. Stanton had made a similar
application to Theodore D. Dwight, that the law school might be
opened to young women. In the course of their conversation
Professor Dwight said; "Do you think girls know enough to study
law?" Mrs. Stanton replied: "All the liberal laws for women that
have been passed in the last twenty years are the results of the
protests of women; surely, if they know enough to protest against
bad laws, they know enough to study our whole system of
jurisprudence."

[223] It was peculiarly fitting that this application should be
made by Mrs. Blake, as two of her ancestors had been presidents of
the college. The first it ever had, when founded as King's
College