Matilda Joslyn Gage

@Abolitionist, Birthday and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Matilda Joslyn Gage was a prominent nineteenth century suffrage leader, abolitionist and writer Feminists Humanitarian American Activists Civil Rights Activists Women's Rights Activists Writers Aries Celebrities Matilda Joslyn Gage was a prominent women’s rights activist and women’s suffrage leader of the nineteenth century. She used the pen as her weapon for fighting against the subjugation of women and wrote several speeches, feminist essays and books which put emphasis on the importance of women all through history and how their role was strategically dismissed by men. ‘Born with a hatred for oppression’, Matilda Joslyn Gage was not just concerned with the exploitation of white women but also fought relentlessly against the violence perpetuated on the African slaves, native African-American women and similar minor classes of America. She was elected as the leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association once. Gage was the contemporary of women rights activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her significance in the women’s suffrage movement was not much acknowledged because when she formed a radical suffrage organization on her own, Anthony and Stanton removed her references from their legendary book on the history of suffrage movement. Scientific historian Margaret. W. Rossiter came up with the phrase ‘Matilda Effect’ after Gage’s name.

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Birthday: March 24, 1826 Died on: March 18, 1898 Nationality: American Famous: Abolitionist, Author, Freethinker, Feminists, Humanitarian, Activists, Civil Rights Activists, Women's Rights Activists, Writers Spouses: Henry Hill Gage Known as: Matilda Electa Gag Childrens: Charles Henry Gage, Helen Leslie Gage, Julia Louise Gage, Maud Gage Baum, Thomas Clarkson Gage Information Detail Birthday March 24, 1826 Died on March 18, 1898 Nationality American Famous Abolitionist, Author, Freethinker, Feminists, Humanitarian, Activists, Civil Rights Activists, Women's Rights Activists, Writers Spouses Henry Hill Gage Known as Matilda Electa Gag Childrens Charles Henry Gage, Helen Leslie Gage, Julia Louise Gage, Maud Gage Baum, Thomas Clarkson Gage Birth Place Cicero Gender Female Father Hezekiah Joslyn Sun Sign Aries Born in Cicero Famous as Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author Died at Age 71

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Matilda married Henry Hill Gage and the couple bore five children - Charles Henry, Helen Leslie, Thomas Clarkson, Julia Louise, and Maud. Unsplash Personal Life

Maud married L.Frank Baum, the author the children’s classic tale ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. Unsplash Personal Life

Gage’s son Thomas Clarkson Gage and his wife Sophia were the parents of Dorothy Gale, the namesake of the fictional character created by her uncle Baum. Unsplash Personal Life

Matilda Gage was born on March 24, 1826 in Cicero, New York, in a house which was the station of the Underground Railroad. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Her father, Hezekiah, and mother, Helen Leslie Joslyn, were both free thinkers and supporters of liberal social reforms. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Gage was taught by her father at home. She became proficient in Greek, Physiology and Mathematics. When she grew older, she was enrolled at in the Clinton New York Liberal Institute. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Gage’s involvement in the women’s rights movement began with her speech delivered at the Third National Women’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, in the year 1852, at the age of 26. The speech focused on how slavery and the constricted rights of women were different sides of the same coin. This speech became popular and was later published. Unsplash Career

In 1869, Matilda Joslyn Gage became a member of the advisory council of the National Woman Suffrage Association. She was the president of the organsation during 1875-1876. Unsplash Career

In 1875, she appeared before the U.S congress to state under oath in favor of a Suffrage Bill which was under deliberation. But when the government did not pass the Bill, she wrote an essay which was circulated at the NWSA convention in Washington in 1876. The essay infuriated the government officials who tried to put an end to the convention. However, Gage successfully thwarted their attempt. Unsplash Career

In 1878, she started a monthly journal of a Toldedo (Ohio) suffrage group by the name of ‘The National Citizen and the Ballot Box’. The journal covered topics like the plight of women prisoners and prostitutes and opposition of Class Legislation. Unsplash Career

As a consequence of her persistent campaigning for women’s right to vote, the state of New York granted women the right to elect members of the school boards. Unsplash Career

Matilda Gage published a vast collection of opinion pieces, essays and books during her lifetime. Some of her most remarkable publications are ‘Woman as Inventor’(1870), ‘History of Woman Suffrage’ (1881), ‘Woman, Church and State’(1893),), ‘Prospectus’ and ‘Indian Citizenship’. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	March 24, 1826
Died on	March 18, 1898
Nationality	American
Famous	Abolitionist, Author, Freethinker, Feminists, Humanitarian, Activists, Civil Rights Activists, Women's Rights Activists, Writers
Spouses	Henry Hill Gage
Known as	Matilda Electa Gag
Childrens	Charles Henry Gage, Helen Leslie Gage, Julia Louise Gage, Maud Gage Baum, Thomas Clarkson Gage
Birth Place	Cicero
Gender	Female
Father	Hezekiah Joslyn
Sun Sign	Aries
Born in	Cicero
Famous as	Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Died at Age	71

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Mar 24, 1826

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