ABSTRACT
The personal experience of Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) gave her a strong sense of the capacity and rights of women. She spoke in Quaker meetings from when she was a young woman and became a travelling preacher and a well-known abolitionist. Her knowledge of the Bible and early Christian history added conviction to her belief in an enlarged role for women. Women's engagement with reform causes and increasing opportunities in education justified their claims of public recognition. Such beliefs had prompted her aid to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in promoting the Seneca Falls convention on women's rights in 1848.
