Harriot Stanton Blatch

1856-1940

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was the daughter of Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Vassar College in 1878, spent a year at the Boston School of Oratory and traveled abroad as a tutor from 1880 -1881. On her return Blatch helped her mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony to compile their History of Women's Suffrage

She married William Henry Blatch in 1882 and moved to England where she became involved with women's suffrage. When she and her family moved back to New York in 1902, Blatch continued her suffrage work among the women in the Lower East Side. In 1907 Blatch launched the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later the Women's Political Union in America) which merged with the Congressional Union in 1917. Blatch was head of the speakers' bureau of the Food Administration and director of the Women's Land Army. After the war Blatch directed her energy towards equality and was chair of the National Women's Party congressional committee for a number of years. She supported liberal causes throughout her life and ran unsuccessfully as a political candidate on the Socialist party ticket during the 1920s.

Source: Biographies Plus, American Reformers (1985)