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Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought. She is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention. She influenced her son-in-law L. Frank Baum, the author of The…
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culture · American abolitionist, author (1826–1898) · women's rights activist · editor · journalist · suffragist · suffragette · also Matilda Joslyn Gage, Matilda Electa Joslyn, Gage
Born 24 March 1826 · Died 18 March 1898 · Q3119366
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A National Votes for Women Trail marker was unveiled in Saratoga Springs, to commemorate Gage and how she helped start the New York State Women Suffrage Association in Saratoga Springs
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1995).
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Gage was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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And it was banned under the Comstock laws
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Died 1898-03-18.
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Gage died in the Baum home in Chicago in 1898.
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And editor of its official journal, The Liberal Thinker; the other initial officers were Josephine Cables Aldrich, vice-president; Mary Emily Bates Coues, secretary; and William F
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Experienced some illuminations that intensified her interest in psychical research
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Published Woman, Church and State, a book that outlined the variety of ways in which Christianity had oppressed women and reinforced patriarchal systems
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Gage published Woman, Church, and State, a book that argued the church was responsible for women's oppression throughout history
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Gage was an Elector-at-Large for Belva Lockwood and the Equal Rights Party
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Wrote:In not a single State of the Union is a married woman held to possess a right to her earnings within the family; and in not one-half of them has she a right to their control in business entered upon outside of
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Gage published a similar essay called Woman as an Inventor in the North American Review
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Bought the Ballot Box, the monthly journal of a Toledo, Ohio, suffrage association, when its editor, Sarah R
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Gage was part of a group of 10 women who attempted to vote
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Gage published a pamphlet called Woman as an Inventor
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Wrote a letter to The Revolution (a women's rights paper edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury), supporting the view that abortion was an institution supported, dominated and furthered by men
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When she decided to speak at the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York
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Born 1826-03-24.
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Matilda Electa Joslyn was born in Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826.
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