Two of these people were Rhoda Brownell and Mary Perkins, both teachers who believed that all children should receive a education, no matter what race or gender. Susan met Miss Brownell while visiting her Grandmother Anthony during her mother's fourth pregnancy. Rhoda Brownell was boarding with the Anthonys while she instructed the students at the school that Susan's grandfather ran.

An excited three-year-old Susan asked Miss Brownell if she could show her how to read. Miss Brownell told her that she could, and later, Susan could always be found with her nose in a book. Unfortunately, Susan contracted the disease whooping cough, and had to remain at her grandparent's house long after her mother gave birth. When S

The lives of many people and the lessons they showed helped to form Susan's beliefs and values in her early years. They turned her from a wide-eyed (or cross eyed) little girl into a mature and willful woman.

Susan B. Anthony's mother, Lucy Read, was also an important person in Susan's life. She was a sort of melancholy woman, very quiet and shy. Lucy always seemed to be busy, yet so worn from the pressures of being a mother, wife, and the overseer of a boarding house. Sometimes it seemed to Susan that her mother had suffered so much injustice that she couldn't help but be sorrowful. In order to marry Susan's father, Lucy had been forced to become a Quaker and give up gaiety such as wearing bright clothing, singing, dancing, and attending parties. Lucy's Baptist family was disappointed in her for wedding one outside their religious society, and she hardly saw them. W

Some topics in this essay:
Lucy's Baptist, Miss Perkins, Mary Perkins, Unfortunately Susan, Frederick Douglass, Sometimes Susan, Lucy Read, Rhoda Brownell, Miss Brownell, Susan Anthony's, miss perkins, susan's father, miss brownell, lucy forced, mary perkins, rhoda brownell, whooping cough, susan anthony's,