Femmes éminentes de l'âge : être des récits de la vie et des actes des femmes les plus éminentes de la génération actuelle . et qui obéiraient, — le spir-IT, ou la convention? Elle a rapidement répondu, Là Où le théscrit de Dieu est, il y a la liberté. L'indignation générale ressentie par les esprits avancés parmi les femmes d'Angleterre, de France et d'Amérique, et le ton puérile des débats sur cette question, a donné naissance à ce que l'on appelle le Rightsmovement des Womans sur les deux continents. Le W^omen d’Angleterre se soonafter a créé une revue Womans Rights et pétitionedParliamijt pour leurs droits de propriété.

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Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . and which would you obey, — the spir-it, or the convention? She promptly replied, Where thespirit of God is, there is liberty. The general indignationfelt by the advanced minds among the women of England, France, and America, and the puerile tone of the debates onthis question, gave birth to what is called the Womans Rightsmovement on both continents. The w^omen of England soonafter established a Womans Rights journal, and petitionedParliameijt for their rights of property. Their demands wereably maintained by Lord Brougham in the House of Peers.The French women, too, soon after established a journal, soliberal and republican in its sentiments, that they were com-l)clled to publish it in Italy, though it was clandestinely cir-culated in France. At the same time Frederika Bremer, inher popular novels, was ridiculing the creeds and codes andcustoms of her country, and thus undermining the laws ofSweden in regard to women, which, in many particulars, wereBoon after essentially modified. -^?Vu£;>^er;s.-, v ^^-^^-^^-^^^^^^ fy^C^TT^ LUCRETIA MOTT. 371 LUCRETIA MOTT. It -svag in London that I first met Lucretia Mott. Wechanced to stop at the same house, with a party of Amer-icans, who had come to attend the Worlds Convention.Seated by her at the dinner-table I was soon oblivious toeverything bat the lovely Quakeress, though a bride, Avithmy husband by my side. She was then in her prime, smallin stature, slightly built, with a large head, high, square fore-head, remarkably fine face, regular features, dark hair andeyes. She was gentle and refined in her manners, and con-versed with earnestness and ease. There were several cler-gymen at the table that day, who, in the course of conversa-tion, rallied Mrs. Mott on her views of woman. She calmlyparried all their attacks, — now by her quiet humor turning tholaugh on them, and then by her earnestness a

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