Harriot Stanton Blatch papers, 1907-1915

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1856, Jan. 20	Born, Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1878	Graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1879-1880	Attended Boston School of Oratory, Boston, Mass.
1880-1881	Traveled abroad as tutor and companion to young girls
1882	Married William Henry Blatch (died 1915)
1882-1902	Lived in Basingstoke, England
1894	M.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1902	Returned to United States with family
1907	Founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (name changed to Women's Political Union in 1910); served as president, 1907-1915
1913	Joined the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and helped devise strategy to defeat Democratic candidates in the 1914 congressional election
1917	Aided in bringing together the Congressional Union (with which the Women's Political Union had merged in 1916) and the National Woman's Party Headed speakers bureau, United States Food Administration Director, Woman's Land Army for farm labor
1918	Published Mobilizing Woman-Power. New York: Womans Press
1920	Published A Woman's Point of View; Some Roads to Peace. New York: Womans Press
1922	Published with Theodore Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary, and Reminiscences. New York: Harper & Brothers
1940	Published with Alma Lutz Challenging Years; the Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
1940, Nov. 20	Died, New York, N.Y.