At a time when social convention frowned on women speaking in public, Anna Dickinson reaped higher speaker’s fees than Mark Twain. A young protege of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at age 21 she was invited by the joint leadership of Congress to deliver an address in the House of Representatives. The audience for her 1864 speech to a packed chamber included the President and Mrs. Lincoln, senators, representatives, and other dignitaries. This photograph was taken about that time.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.
Date: 1860 (1855–65)
At a time when social convention frowned on women speaking in public, Anna Dickinson reaped higher speaker’s fees than Mark Twain. A young protege of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at age 21 she was invited by the joint leadership of Congress to deliver an address in the House of Representatives. The audience for her 1864 speech to a packed chamber included the President and Mrs. Lincoln, senators, representatives, and other dignitaries. This photograph was taken about that time.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.
Date: 1860 (1855–65)