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Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Born: March 23 1826

Died: 1717 03 18981898

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".

Matilda Gage spent her childhood in a house which was used as a station of the Underground Railroad. She faced prison for her actions under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 which criminalized assistance to escaped slaves. Even though she was beset by both financial and physical problems throughout her life, her work for women's rights was extensive, practical, and often brilliantly executed.

A daughter of the early abolitionist Hezekiah Joslyn, Gage was the wife of Henry Hill Gage, with whom she had five children: Charles Henry , Helen Leslie, Thomas Clarkson, Julia Louise, and Maud. Gage lived in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life.

Maud, who was ten years younger than Julia, initially horrified her mother when she chose to marry author L. Frank Baum at a time when he was a struggling actor with only a handful of plays to his writing credit. However, a few minutes after the initial announcement, Gage started laughing, apparently realizing that her emphasis on all individuals making up their own minds was not lost on her headstrong daughter, who gave up a chance at a law career when the opportunity for women was rare. Gage spent six months of every year with Maud and Frank. Gage's son Thomas Clarkson Gage and his wife Sophia had a daughter named Dorothy Louise Gage, who was born in Bloomington, Illinois on June 11, 1898, but died five months later, on November 11, 1898.

The death so upset the child's aunt Maud, who had always longed for a daughter, that she required medical attention. Thomas Clarkson Gage's child was the namesake of her uncle Frank Baum's famed fictional character, Dorothy Gale. In 1996, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, a biographer of Matilda Joslyn Gage, located young Dorothy's grave in Bloomington. A memorial was erected in the child's memory at her gravesite on May 21, 1997. This child is often mistaken for her cousin of the same name, Dorothy Louise Gage , Helen Leslie Gage's child.

Gage died in the Baum home in Chicago, in 1898. Although Gage was cremated, there is a memorial stone at Fayetteville Cemetery that bears her slogan "There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home or Heaven. That word is Liberty."

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Woman, Church, and State

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III

History Of Woman Suffrage

Votes for Women: Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes): Elizabeth ... B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams

The Suffragettes - Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

The Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes)

Direitos da mulher e da cidadã

History Of Woman Suffrage: 1861-1876

Woman, Church and State: The Original Exposé of Male Against the Female Sex

Woman, Church and State

History of Woman Suffrage (Vol. 1-6): Complete Edition

History of Woman Suffrage;: 5

History of Women's Marches – The Political Battle of Suffragettes (Complete 6 Volume Edition): Including Documents, Images, Letters, Newspaper Articles, ... Equal Pay Issues & Latest Statistics

History of Woman Suffrage; Volume 1

The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

History Of Woman Suffrage; Volume 1

The Complete History of the Suffragette Movement - All 6 Books in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

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Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Books from Matilda Joslyn Gage

Woman, Church, and State

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III

History Of Woman Suffrage

Votes for Women: Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes): Elizabeth ... B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams

The Suffragettes - Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

The Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes)

Direitos da mulher e da cidadã

History Of Woman Suffrage: 1861-1876

Woman, Church and State: The Original Exposé of Male Against the Female Sex

Woman, Church and State

History of Woman Suffrage (Vol. 1-6): Complete Edition

History of Woman Suffrage;: 5

History of Women's Marches – The Political Battle of Suffragettes (Complete 6 Volume Edition): Including Documents, Images, Letters, Newspaper Articles, ... Equal Pay Issues & Latest Statistics

History of Woman Suffrage; Volume 1

The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts &amp; Decisions)

History Of Woman Suffrage; Volume 1

The Complete History of the Suffragette Movement - All 6 Books in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper ... Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)