“THE WOMAN’S BIBLE" ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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This anonymous broadside reads, in part: “THE WOMAN’S BIBLE" Editor ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Suffrage Association, one of the Revising Committee.
In the early nineties, a group of leading Suffragists decided that the ‘Christian Bible, the Christian religion and the Christian ministry were the greatest obstacles to the spread of woman suffrage.’ They concluded that the Bible should be rewritten from the woman’s standpoint, but they could not persuade any scholars to make the desired changes in the translation, and so they were compelled to take the English version as it stood, and say how it should have been written … The Woman Suffrage Association is the only political body to hold its convention meetings on Sunday …. the women who invaded Connecticut to try to force Governor Holcomb to call a special session, met in New York on Sunday and had a big political dinner on that day … The attacks on ministers are too numerous and long to quote, but again and again women are urged to throw off these old superstitions …. Are you willing for women who hold these views to become political powers in our country?” This broadside, which includes numerous quotes from The Woman’s Bible, was possibly written by a member of the clergy, as much of the criticism focuses on the suffrage leaders’ revisionist stance on the Bible and their decision to hold meetings on Sundays.
The Woman’s Bible (1895-96), published by Stanton in two volumes, challenged organized religion by undertaking a feminist interpretation of the Bible. As our document notes, a Revising Committee took part in this effort. This committee included Mrs. Robert Ingersoll and Mrs. Olympia Brown, though it did not include Catt or Blackwell, whom the anonymous author includes his diatribe against women, suffrage and Stanton. Excellent condition; two tears at bottom.
In the early nineties, a group of leading Suffragists decided that the ‘Christian Bible, the Christian religion and the Christian ministry were the greatest obstacles to the spread of woman suffrage.’ They concluded that the Bible should be rewritten from the woman’s standpoint, but they could not persuade any scholars to make the desired changes in the translation, and so they were compelled to take the English version as it stood, and say how it should have been written … The Woman Suffrage Association is the only political body to hold its convention meetings on Sunday …. the women who invaded Connecticut to try to force Governor Holcomb to call a special session, met in New York on Sunday and had a big political dinner on that day … The attacks on ministers are too numerous and long to quote, but again and again women are urged to throw off these old superstitions …. Are you willing for women who hold these views to become political powers in our country?” This broadside, which includes numerous quotes from The Woman’s Bible, was possibly written by a member of the clergy, as much of the criticism focuses on the suffrage leaders’ revisionist stance on the Bible and their decision to hold meetings on Sundays.
The Woman’s Bible (1895-96), published by Stanton in two volumes, challenged organized religion by undertaking a feminist interpretation of the Bible. As our document notes, a Revising Committee took part in this effort. This committee included Mrs. Robert Ingersoll and Mrs. Olympia Brown, though it did not include Catt or Blackwell, whom the anonymous author includes his diatribe against women, suffrage and Stanton. Excellent condition; two tears at bottom.
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