The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (Gender and American Culture)

The story of how the women’s rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women’s suffrage. In her