The "hush" of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, "it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home."...

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is now available for purchase as a six folume set. Together the volumes in this set offer and extensive and in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.