HISTORY OF THE NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S CLUB
Sprague, Julia A.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. First edition. 16mo, 53pp; + Appendix (pp. 55-99); olive green cloth stamped in gilt front and spine. Mild spotting front cover; tips and spinal ends lightly worn. Dampstaining at lower fore-edge and at upper foretip affects a number of text pages. Good+. The brainchild of reformer and suffragist Caroline Severance (1820-1914), the New England Woman's Club was established in February 1868 by Severance with Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Abby May and others of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. The club movement was a vital part of women's efforts to empower themselves; as a spearhead of that movement, the New England Women's Club was one of the most effective and influential. A valuable primary source with information on those members of the club, addresses on different subjects made to the club both by club members and non-club members. The former included Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Field, James T. Fields and numerous other 19th c. luminaries. AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY, pp. 84-86. NAW II, 227-228; III 265-267. TIMELINES OF AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY, p. 177. (Item ID: 14577)
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