Gamble began her career as a schoolteacher in Concord, Michigan. After five years she became the assistant superintendent of the East Saginaw high school. She married James Gamble, a businessman with a degree in law, in 1865. Eliza became involved in the woman suffrage movement in the 1860s and helped to organise the first women's suffrage conference in Michigan in 1876. By 1882, she was convinced of the equality of women and spent a year in Washington, D.C. studying academic collections on the subject at the Library of Congress. This led to her first book, The Evolution of Women in 1894, which was well-received. Over the next twenty years, Gamble was active in women's rights and feminist ideology, and continued writing until her death. Her other works include Woman and the Church (1897), The God-Idea of the Ancients, or Sex in Religion (1897), Race Suicide in France (1909), Child-Life Study is Woman's Duty (1910), Prime Truth of Eugenics Voiced By This Writer (1912) and The Sexes in Science and History(1916). |
