American women's rights activist who authored the "Declaration of Sentiments" at the Seneca Falls convention in New York in 1848. The declaration called for women to be given the right to vote and equality in other respects, proclaiming "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." At the time, married American women had no rights to money, property or much else; their personhood dissolved into their husband's under laws of "coverture".
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.