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Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her Into History

August 19, 7:00 PM

A lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner

The "forgotten feminist," Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) harbored fugitive slaves, was an adopted Native American, influenced "Oz," and worked for the separation of church and state.

Although she was considered equally important as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (the were called the "triumvirate of the movement"), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1828 - 1898) has been all but written out of history. Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the foremost authority on Gage, enlightens about this amazing women "lost from history," who offered her Fayetteville, New York home as a station on the Underground Railroad, was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, edited a newspaper, encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to write his "Oz" stories, and worked for the separation of church and state.

Dr. Wagner will also share information about the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, of which she is the founder and Executive Director. Formed seven years ago to bring this important suffragist to her rightful place in history, the Gage Foundation operates out of Gage's Fayetteville home.

Fort William Henry Museum

For further information about this event, please contact:

Melodie Viele
Phone: (518) 538-6626

http://www.fortwilliamhenry.com

This lecture is a part of the Speakers in the Humanities program.