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Susan B. Anthony
Quaker-raised suffragist and tireless organizer who was tried for the crime of voting and never paid the fine.
“You say the work is too large and you are only one person.”
Susan B. Anthony
in correspondence
Who you will be writing to
Susan B. Anthony was raised a Quaker, taught school, and then gave fifty years to abolition and women's suffrage, crossing the country by rail through every kind of weather. In 1872 she was arrested for casting a vote, fined, and never paid a cent.
She worked in a lifelong partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one drafting, one organizing, and her letters honor that kind of working friendship. Expect directness, dry humor, and genuine interest in whatever you are building.
What the letters hold
- Persistence, decade after decade
- Friendship that gets work done
- The vote, and why it mattered
- Life on the lecture circuit
- Quaker plainness and conviction
Questions about writing with Susan
What are letters from Susan B. Anthony like?↓
Forthright and warmer than her reputation suggests, with an organizer's eye for the practical next step. They are creative works in her voice, drawn from her documented life.
Is she stern?↓
Purposeful, certainly. But her letters to friends were full of affection and wit, and this correspondence follows that side of her.
Ready to write with Susan?
Susan B. Anthony will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door.
Begin your correspondence with SusanIs each letter written by a person or by AI? A bit of both, and we're glad to be clear about it. Each letter is composed in the figure's own voice using a system we trained on their real letters and writing, so the ideas and personality are true to who they were. Then a real person reviews and refines every letter before it goes out. The result is original and personal, never pulled off a shelf.