Visionaries: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

To celebrate International Women's Day, my guest, author Penny Colman, discusses the legendary friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a friendship that fueled and sustained the nineteenth-century fight for women's rights, a fight they waged despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.

Penny Colman is the author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World. She is a widely published author of books, essays, stories, and articles for all ages. The awards for Colman's books include the American Library Association Best of the Best for the Twenty-first Century, International Reading Association Teachers' Choice and Young Readers' Choice, among many others.