oman's individuality; criticism of Curtis; six weeks'
legislative work in Albany; convention in New York under difficulties;
extract from Tribune; Memorial to Legislatures; lecturing at New York
watering places; journey on boat to Poughkeepsie; anecdote of waiter at
hotel; incident of Quaker meeting in Easton; married women too busy to
help in fall canvass; letter of Rev. Thomas K. Beecher; incident at
Gerrit Smith's--the Solitude of Self; John Brown meeting; letters
regarding it from Pillsbury and Mrs. Stanton; Hovey Legacy;
correspondence with Judge Ormond, of Alabama; "We are your enemies!"

CHAPTER XII.

RIFT IN COMMON LAW--DIVORCE QUESTION. (1860.), 185-205

Early Woman's Rights meetings not Suffrage conventions; Legal Status of
Woman outlined by David Dudley Field; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton as
co-workers and writers; Tilton's description of the two; before the
N.Y. Legislature; Married Woman's Property Law; woman's debt to Susan
B. Anthony; Emerson on Lyceum Bureau; letters from Mary S. Anthony on
injustice to school-teachers; Beecher's lecture on Woman's Rights;
convention at Cooper Institute; Mrs. Stanton on Divorce; Phillips'
objections; Mrs. Dall's proper convention in Boston; battle renewed at
Progressive Friends' meeting; Miss Anthony's home duties; letter from
her birthplace; Anti-Slavery depository at Albany; Agricultural address
at Dundee; Miss Anthony's defiance of the law giving child to father.

CHAPTER XIII.

MOB EXPERIENCE--CIVIL WAR. (1861-1862.), 207-224

Difference between Republicans and Abolitionists; Miss Anthony arranges
series of Garrisonian meetings; mobbed in every city from Buffalo to
Albany; Mayor Thacher preserves the peace at State capital; last
Woman's Rights Convention before the War; Miss Anthony's views on
motherhood; Phillips declares for War; letters on this subject from
Beriah Green and Miss Anthony; opinion on "Adam Bede;" letter on Rosa
Bonheur and Harriet Hosmer; N.Y. Legislature repeals laws recently
enacted for women; letters from Anna Dickinson and Greeley on the War;
Miss Anthony's opinion of private schools; attends her last Teacher's
Convention; in the Anti-Slavery lecture field; death of father.

CHAPTER XIV.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL LOYAL LEAGUE. (1863-1864.), 225-240

Disbelief that the War would lead to Woman Suffrage; letters from
Tilton on Proclamation and Henry B. Stanton on condition of country;
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton issue appeal to women to