Alma Lutz was an American suffragist and biographer. Public information about her life is limited: her birth and death years, education, and specific experiences are not clearly recorded. What can be confirmed is that she entered writing as a participant in the women's suffrage movement and left behind one biographical work, Susan B. Anthony. The book takes Anthony, a central figure in the American women's suffrage movement, as its subject and belongs to a mode of writing that combines political biography with the history of the women's movement. Her choice of subject shows an interest in the history of women's struggle for the vote and public participation, and her writing tends to follow the subject's life as a thread, presenting the movement's progress and the historical context rather than abstract argument. The book also offers later readers studying the American women's suffrage movement a referable biographical text, its value lying mainly in the organization of historical material and the narration of a life.
