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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON COMING TO [LOCATION]

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Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, a nationally acclaimed performer and lecturer will bring her portrayal of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton to [LOCATION] on [DAY AND DATE] at [TIME].  The unscripted performance, which has been presented across the country for audiences from grade schools to legislatures for over 20 years, will be especially adapted for [LOCATION].  Wagner brings more than 30 years of research and study to her portrayal.  At the conclusion of her presentation, Wagner’s audience is invited to question “Stanton” about her attitudes — and Wagner about her Stanton research.

One of this nation’s leading advocates of women’s rights, Stanton toured the country in her later years, delivering thousands of homilies and political speeches.  “You bring her to life in exactly the way I’ve always imagined her,” applauded the chief of interpretation of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls, N.Y. after the performance.  Cheered the Los Angeles Times: “(Elizabeth Cady Stanton) … appeared at her rabble-rousing best … expounding on her most radical notions. …It was not Stanton at the lectern, of course, but Sally Roesch Wagner.”

Nationally recognized as an authority on the 19th century woman’s rights movement,  Wagner appeared as a “talking head” in the Ken Burns PBS documentary, “Not For Ourselves Alone: The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide for PBS.  The author of numerous articles and books, she will be signing several, including her Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists at the conclusion of the event. Wagner currently serves serving as Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York and adjunct faculty at Syracuse University.

Committed and unwavering, Stanton was a major architect and champion of women’s rights.  In her later years, she came to believe that the church was the foundation of women’s oppression and in 1895, she published The Women’s Bible, which led to attacks from both the clergy and conservative suffragists. “Stanton’s work is yet unfinished,” Wagner says.  “The issues and concerns that commanded her interest continue as our issues and concerns.”  In costume and in character, Wagner admits her audiences into the life and times of a dynamic and still-controversial woman.

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