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sex. It also wanted to meet the needs of students who were willing to work for an education.
Lucy's father thought she was crazy to want to attend, and refused his support; so she earned the money herself. It took her until she was twenty-five. She taught country' school at a dollar a week, later increased to four.
In college she did some tutoring, also housework. She would prop up her Greek book before her while washing dishes. She boarded herself for fifty cents a week.
After three years, her father hearing that she got up at three o'clock in the morning, wrote that he would send her money.
She was the recipient of a rather dubious honor while a senior. She was asked to write one of the Commencement theses. She refused unless she herself could read it and not let a man-graduate do so.
The convention of the time would not allow that, so she did not write. In later years she was the featured
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speaker at an Oberlin Commencement.
From the date of her graduation in 1847, Lucy Stone made a name for herself. A dainty little body, she was far from being a strident exponent of Woman's Rights. Her voice was of a singularly beautiful quality, and she had many admirers with serious intentions, even though her father said at one time, "Lucy's face is like a blacksmith's apron. It keeps off the sparks."
An early picture shows her with hair parted in the middle, drawn back and slightly puffed out over the ears. Her nose was broad and tiptilted. Her eyes grey, her mouth strong and kindly. She was a small woman with gentle manners, sweet voice and great natural eloquence.
The garments of that time were tight-laced ones, voluminous and trailing skirts. Lucy took up the Bloomer costume. A newspaper in Cleveland described it in these words. "Her dress is first a black velvet coat with collar fastened with buttons. Next, a skirt of silk reaching to the knees, then the breeches of black silk, with neat-fitting gaitors."
Susan B. Anthony considered the costume an agony to wear. She gave it up after four years. Lucy gave up also.
Lucy lectured for ten years. She converted Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe and Frances Willard to the cause of Woman Suffrage. She headed the call for the first National Woman's Rights convention.
She married Mr. Blackwell after he had agreed not to stand in the way