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British Inspiration for American Women Seeking Equal Rights
British writer Mary Wollstonecraft, an advocate for equal education for women, was an inspiration to early suffragists, especially Susan B. Anthony who hung Wollstonecraft's picture in her home and serialized her 1792 feminist classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in her 1870s suffrage newspaper. Writing in her copy of Wollstonecraft's influential treatise, Anthony declared herself "a great admirer of this earliest work for woman's right to Equality of rights." |