Expectant at Seneca Falls

Authors

Sherry H. Penney, University of Massachusetts BostonFollow
James D. Livingston

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2003

Abstract

This is a biographical sketch of Martha Coffin Wright of Auburn, New York, one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. She was active in the abolition movement and remained a leader in the women's rights movement until her death in 1875, when she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Comments

Published in New York History, the journal of the New York State Historical Association: http://www.nysha.org/nysha_5/.

Recommended Citation

Penney, Sherry H. and James D. Livingston, "Expectant at Seneca Falls," New York History, 84 (Winter 2003), 32-49.

Publisher

New York State Historical Association