Love Life of Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was one of the premier activists of the 19th century. Her early life was dedicated to the abolition of slavery in the United States and then she worked towards equal rights between men and women including the right to vote in public elections. Of course, she also worked towards equal rights between all races. The play deals with Susan B. Anthony's lesbian affairs of which there were many especially with feminists Genevieve Harrington, Anna Dickinson, Elizabeth Stanton, and Emily Gross. There are also insights into the Women's Equal Rights movement. Susan never married and lived her life dedicated to her causes. She was raised a Quaker and her parents were pacifists and staunchly anti-slavery. This background led to Susan being unafraid to take unpopular stances against prejudice and injustice of any sort. Possibly her greatest achievement was the passing of the 19th Amendment to the constitution, often called the Anthony Amendment giving equal rights to men and women, especially for voting. Before Susan B. Anthony, there really was not much of a feminist movement in the United States. She opened the doors to colleges and universities for women and to positions in professions. No longer were women's lives restricted to domestic duties in the home. She opened the doors to the cages that women had been held in up to that time.