Matilda
Joslyn
was born in Cicero, New York, on 25th
March, 1826. When she was nineteen she married a successful merchant,
Henry H. Gage.
In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan
B. Anthony formed a new organization, the National
Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Gage joined the NWSA
and in 1875 became president of the organization. From 1878 to 1881
she published and edited the feminist newspapers, National
Citizen
and Ballot
Box.
She also wrote several pamphlets including Woman
as Inventor (1870), Women's Rights
Catechism (1871), The Dangers
of the Hour (1890) and the book Woman,
Church and State (1893).
Gage was also a historian of the struggle for women's rights and with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan
Anthony, complied and published the four volume, The
History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1902). Matilda
Joslyn Gage died in Chicago
on 18th March, 1898.
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