Today is the birthday of Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906), an American social reformer who fought for the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, and women's rights. In 1878, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader in the women's rights movement, supported the introduction of legislation to the United States Congress amending the United States Constitution to grant women the right to vote. The amendment, later known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, was ratified in 1920 as the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying United States citizens the right to vote the basis of sex. In commemoration of Anthony's birthday and the long battle for women's suffrage, this Gebruder Heubach lady is dressed in the role of an Edwardian suffragette preparing to march for the right of women to vote. Wearing her original mohair wig, this 12.25 inch high lady doll has a bisque shoulder head on a cloth body with composition lower limbs. Her antique silk outfit, with its hobble skirt, would have been the height of fashion in the early 1910s.
Our club luncheon for 2020 was going to center on the suffragists but, of course, it was postponed and is planned for this year. I was able to find two different suffragist dolls made by Madame Alexander.
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