the leading feminist in america in the nineteeth century was?

Answer 1

Elizabeth Cady Stanton would probably be the most prominent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

The organized movement is dated from the first Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. John Stuart Mill, with the influence of his wife Harriet Taylor, made a considerable contribution with his work The Subjection of Women, in the mid-19th Century.

Other notable 19th-century feminists include, Emma Goldman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, and Margaret Sanger.

Answer 2

That's so cool that somebody actually said Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Most of the credit usually goes to Susan B. Anthony, but she was essentially a mouthpiece for Stanton's works.

Answer 3

Mrs Bloomer was the only one whose name passed into the language. The original 'bloomers' were actually a sort of trouser suit.

Answer 4

Virginia Woolf comes to mind - although she was at the turn of the century really..

Answer 5

L. Mott, E Stanton, D. Dix, H. Stowe,C. Beecher