Women’s Rights Chronology 317Wollstonecraft and the exclusion of women from public
speech at the convention, and decide to promote the rights of
women as part of their commitment to abolition and human
rights in general.
1841 Rights of Woman reprinted in London.
1844 Rights of Woman reprinted in London.
1845 Rights of Woman reprinted in New York.
1848 The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention occurs in July
in upstate New York, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Quaker minister Lucretia Mott. It produces the “Declaration
of Sentiments,” which revises the language of the 1776 U.S.
Declaration of Independence to include women: “all women
and men are created equal” and are “endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights.”
1848 Mathilde Franziska Anneke, a women’s rights advocate from
Cologne, devotes three issues of her women’s newspaper,
Frauen-Zeitung, to printing her German translation of the
Rights of Woman.
1850 First National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, organized by Lucy Stone.
1851 Responding to the recent U.S. women’s rights conventions,
Englishwoman Harriet Taylor publishes her essay “The En-
franchisement of Women” in London.
1856 Rights of Woman reprinted in New York.
1860s Women’s movements for access to male-only university
programs, especially in medicine, gain steam in Russia, Chile,
and England.
1867 Member of Parliament John Stuart Mill represents a petition
for women’s suffrage, signed by thousands of women, in the
British House of Commons.
1868 In New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
reprint the entire Rights of Woman in their feminist newspa-
per The Revolution, as part of their unsuccessful campaign to
include women’s suffrage in the post – Civil War amendments
to the U.S. Constitution.
1869 An instant international success, John Stuart Mill’s The
Subjection of Women— defending women’s entitlement to the
same rights as men on the basis of their shared humanity — is
published in six languages, eight countries, and twelve edi-
tions or printings.