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In the quiet town of Seneca Falls New York over the course of two days in July 1848 a small group of women and men led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held a convention that would launch the women''s rights movement and change the course of history. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women''s Rights Movement Sally McMillen reveals for the first time the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women''s activism from 1840 to 1890 focusing on four extraordinary figures--Mott Stanton Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives how they came to take up the cause of women''s rights the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes and the far-reaching effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men argued for greater legal rights greater professional and education opportunities and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed looking back at the convention two years later Anthony called it the grandest and greatest reform of all time.