Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch January 20, 1856, Seneca Falls, New York – November 20, 1940, Greenwich, Connecticut; parents social activists Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; attended Vassar College, graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1878; married William Henry Blatch, Jr., known as "Harry Blatch" and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire; had two daughters, the second of whom died at age four; Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, was suffragist, and first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering; worked with her mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony on the History of Woman Suffrage (1881); founded the equality league of self-supporting woman in 1907; performed a statistical study of rural English working women's conditions; worked with English social reform groups, including the Women's Local Government Society, the Fabian Society, and the Women's Franchise League; returned to US in 1902 and joined the leadership of the Women's Trade Union League; In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later renamed the Women's Political Union), organized and led the 1910 New York suffrage parade; published a book called Mobilizing Woman Power; 1915, Blatch's Women's Political Union merged with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns' Congressional Union, which eventually became the National Woman's Party; During World War I, Blatch headed the Women's Land Army; after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Blatch joined the National Woman's Party to fight for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment; joined the Socialist Party, eventually left the party, because of its support for protective legislation for women workers; worked on behalf of the League of Nations, proposing improvements for the amendments to the League's Covenant