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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Woolf, Virginia.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929.
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Woolf, Virginia.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929.
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THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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Woolf, Virginia.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929.
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WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
[Ossoli] Fuller, Margaret.
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
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[Ossoli] Fuller, Margaret.
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
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![Only edition. First book appearance of “To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs” by John Greenleaf Whittier at p. 86-88 . 12mo (7-1/8 x 4-1/2"), [iv], 90pp; medium brown wrappers (sewn) printed in black. Some staining and mild overall use to wrappers; moderate foxing to text pages. About very good. When the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society declined to admit women, sisters Ann Greene Chapman and Maria Weston Chapman with others such as Anne Warren Weston, decided to form their own society. Conscience, rather than custom or propriety, should guide them. The Society asserted, to the discomfort of other Abolitionists, that blacks and whites were equal and invited African Americans to join the BFASS. They circulated petitions, raised monies, and spoke out against slavery with such energy that it was not long before fellow Bostonians began to show their disdain. Husbands experienced a decline in business. Sons were not admitted to Harvard College. Walking down Washington Street, long Boston’s shopping district, Chapman found herself subject to slurs and insults hurled from shop doorways. Yet the women refused to wilt. The BFASS inspired other women to form their own societies in Massachusetts and elsewhere and in Maria Weston Chapman they had a strikingly courageous and stalwart spirit armed with an able pen. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), antislavery and women’s rights activist and editor, was a pillar of the BFASS and became William Lloyd Garrison's principal lieutenant. "Firm in her convictions and a formidable opponent to those who disagreed with her, Chapman's leadership and influence in the American abolitionist movement were profound". [WOMEN'S WRITING]. From 1836 to 1838 she edited the BFASS annual report which offered a platform for her opinions as well as providing a conventional account of BFASS activities. Chapman details the activities of the Society through the year: their first quarterly meeting in January where the women gathered “without molestation”; the petition to end slavery in the District of Columbia; transcripts of members’ conversations with escaped slaves and the abuses to which they had been subject; correspondence with other antislavery groups; and, an account of the BFASS intervention on behalf of a young six-year old slave girl brought from Louisiana to keep her mistress company while the family summered in Massachusetts. The BFASS decided to bring suit brought on behalf of the child; since the Massachusetts constitution declared all men free and equal, slavery had no standing. The Massachusetts Supreme Court decided in favor of the Abolitionists. The case, scholar Karen Woods Weierman believes, transformed American slave law. Chapman also takes occasion to discuss the religious establishment and the many hypocrisies she thinks attends it. She scorns the idea that women are lesser beings and suggests “Such harem notions, the relics of barbarous ages, will not be entirely extinguished while slavery exists, for they are only manifestations of its spirit”. Women’s rights, in short, are inextricably bound up with the rights of all. [Whittier] BAL 21698. (Blanck records the report also issued in goldstamped cloth and cloth with a printed label at the front).](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15105.jpg "Only edition. First book appearance of “To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs” by John Greenleaf Whittier at p. 86-88 . 12mo (7-1/8 x 4-1/2\"), [iv], 90pp; medium brown wrappers (sewn) printed in black. Some staining and mild overall use to wrappers; moderate foxing to text pages. About very good. When the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society declined to admit women, sisters Ann Greene Chapman and Maria Weston Chapman with others such as Anne Warren Weston, decided to form their own society. Conscience, rather than custom or propriety, should guide them. The Society asserted, to the discomfort of other Abolitionists, that blacks and whites were equal and invited African Americans to join the BFASS. They circulated petitions, raised monies, and spoke out against slavery with such energy that it was not long before fellow Bostonians began to show their disdain. Husbands experienced a decline in business. Sons were not admitted to Harvard College. Walking down Washington Street, long Boston’s shopping district, Chapman found herself subject to slurs and insults hurled from shop doorways. Yet the women refused to wilt. The BFASS inspired other women to form their own societies in Massachusetts and elsewhere and in Maria Weston Chapman they had a strikingly courageous and stalwart spirit armed with an able pen. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), antislavery and women’s rights activist and editor, was a pillar of the BFASS and became William Lloyd Garrison's principal lieutenant. \"Firm in her convictions and a formidable opponent to those who disagreed with her, Chapman's leadership and influence in the American abolitionist movement were profound\". [WOMEN'S WRITING]. From 1836 to 1838 she edited the BFASS annual report which offered a platform for her opinions as well as providing a conventional account of BFASS activities. Chapman details the activities of the Society through the year: their first quarterly meeting in January where the women gathered “without molestation”; the petition to end slavery in the District of Columbia; transcripts of members’ conversations with escaped slaves and the abuses to which they had been subject; correspondence with other antislavery groups; and, an account of the BFASS intervention on behalf of a young six-year old slave girl brought from Louisiana to keep her mistress company while the family summered in Massachusetts. The BFASS decided to bring suit brought on behalf of the child; since the Massachusetts constitution declared all men free and equal, slavery had no standing. The Massachusetts Supreme Court decided in favor of the Abolitionists. The case, scholar Karen Woods Weierman believes, transformed American slave law. Chapman also takes occasion to discuss the religious establishment and the many hypocrisies she thinks attends it. She scorns the idea that women are lesser beings and suggests “Such harem notions, the relics of barbarous ages, will not be entirely extinguished while slavery exists, for they are only manifestations of its spirit”. Women’s rights, in short, are inextricably bound up with the rights of all. [Whittier] BAL 21698. (Blanck records the report also issued in goldstamped cloth and cloth with a printed label at the front).")
[Chapman, Maria W(eston)].
Boston: Published by the Society Isaac Knapp Printer, 1836.
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![Pamphlet: 10-3/8 x 7", printed in double-columns on off-white stock. Unopened. Minor rumpling. Very good. THE INDEX was the official publication of the Free Religious Association begun in 1867 by Francis Abbot, Octavius B. Frothingham and others to encourage freedom of religious thought. In 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, long a critic of the repression of women by established religions, published the first volume of THE WOMAN’S BIBLE. Immediately it provoked a storm of controversy within and without the movement with its contention that prior translations deliberately had chosen language injurious to women. Suffrage colleagues wished the NAWSA to pass a resolution condemning the book and Stanton’s insistence on the need for women to gain a fairer footing in churches everywhere. Stanton took to her pen to present her views in three articles which together summarize in one extended argument how established religion systematically denigrated women. FREE THOUGHT MAGAZINE in 1896 printed "The Effects of Woman Suffrage on Questions of Moral and Religion"; "The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible"; and, "The Christian Church and Woman". The magazine also issued the three articles as a pamphlet (publication date unknown, but likely the magazine appearances preceded). "The Christian Church and Woman" contains the crux of Stanton's argument, perhaps why THE INDEX had chosen to print it and issue an offprint. She takes aim with her first sentence in which she points to how the ideas of Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus and the gradual sophistication of science have worked to move "the world from the reign of brute force to moral power” while “the Christian Church has steadily used its influence against progress, science, the education of the masses, and freedom for woman". Stanton sees the “prolonged slavery of woman [as] the darkest page in human history”. She scathingly describes canon law as evolved by the Catholic Church and its impact upon women: "Her sex was made a crime; marriage a condition of slavery, owing obedience; maternity a curse; and the true position of all womankind one of inferiority and subjection to all men; and the same ideas are echoed in our pulpits today”. Briskly Stanton surveys the history of the church in England and the United States vis à vis women and finally alights upon the Hindu custom of suttee: “[Women] have been trained by their religion to sacrifice themselves, body and soul, for the men of their families and to build up the churches. We do not burn the bodies of women to-day; but we humiliate them in a thousand ways, and chiefly by our theologies". It is not surprising that only these two associations, both far more liberal than mainstream America, provided a forum for Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s arguments. Likely the audiences were limited, but the doughty reformer employed her masterful rhetoric to great effect. The essay retains all the force of its original power and offers a vision of equality of the sexes within religious institutions yet to be effected today.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/14893.jpg "Pamphlet: 10-3/8 x 7\", printed in double-columns on off-white stock. Unopened. Minor rumpling. Very good. THE INDEX was the official publication of the Free Religious Association begun in 1867 by Francis Abbot, Octavius B. Frothingham and others to encourage freedom of religious thought. In 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, long a critic of the repression of women by established religions, published the first volume of THE WOMAN’S BIBLE. Immediately it provoked a storm of controversy within and without the movement with its contention that prior translations deliberately had chosen language injurious to women. Suffrage colleagues wished the NAWSA to pass a resolution condemning the book and Stanton’s insistence on the need for women to gain a fairer footing in churches everywhere. Stanton took to her pen to present her views in three articles which together summarize in one extended argument how established religion systematically denigrated women. FREE THOUGHT MAGAZINE in 1896 printed \"The Effects of Woman Suffrage on Questions of Moral and Religion\"; \"The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible\"; and, \"The Christian Church and Woman\". The magazine also issued the three articles as a pamphlet (publication date unknown, but likely the magazine appearances preceded). \"The Christian Church and Woman\" contains the crux of Stanton's argument, perhaps why THE INDEX had chosen to print it and issue an offprint. She takes aim with her first sentence in which she points to how the ideas of Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus and the gradual sophistication of science have worked to move \"the world from the reign of brute force to moral power” while “the Christian Church has steadily used its influence against progress, science, the education of the masses, and freedom for woman\". Stanton sees the “prolonged slavery of woman [as] the darkest page in human history”. She scathingly describes canon law as evolved by the Catholic Church and its impact upon women: \"Her sex was made a crime; marriage a condition of slavery, owing obedience; maternity a curse; and the true position of all womankind one of inferiority and subjection to all men; and the same ideas are echoed in our pulpits today”. Briskly Stanton surveys the history of the church in England and the United States vis à vis women and finally alights upon the Hindu custom of suttee: “[Women] have been trained by their religion to sacrifice themselves, body and soul, for the men of their families and to build up the churches. We do not burn the bodies of women to-day; but we humiliate them in a thousand ways, and chiefly by our theologies\". It is not surprising that only these two associations, both far more liberal than mainstream America, provided a forum for Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s arguments. Likely the audiences were limited, but the doughty reformer employed her masterful rhetoric to great effect. The essay retains all the force of its original power and offers a vision of equality of the sexes within religious institutions yet to be effected today.")
Stanton, Mrs. E[lizabeth] Cady.
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. 1896-1898].
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[Suffrage Ephemera],
Rochester, NY: Bastion Bros., [ND, but ca. 1915].
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![First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, "Why the Federal Amendment?"; "Election Laws and Referenda"; "The Story of the 1916 Referenda" and "Objections to the Federal Amendment". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the "36 male suffrage states" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's "Winning Plan" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay "Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her "winning plan" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, "not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15091.jpg "First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to \"why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question\" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, \"Why the Federal Amendment?\"; \"Election Laws and Referenda\"; \"The Story of the 1916 Referenda\" and \"Objections to the Federal Amendment\". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the \"36 male suffrage states\" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's \"Winning Plan\" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay \"Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist\" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her \"winning plan\" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, \"not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage\". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.")
Catt, Carrie Chapman (ed).
New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
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![First edition. First and only printing. Signed and dated at the front fee endpaper: "Charlotte Perkins Gilman / 1909 — Jan. 26th". 8vo, 390pp; brown gilt-stamped cloth. Tips and foot of spine lightly worn; additional mild wear along spine where it joins the front cover. Generally a firm, fresh and pleasing copy. Very good. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), a member of the illustrious Beecher family, is considered the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement. Her most important and influential book, WOMAN AND ECONOMICS (1898), an extremely successful book with nine printings between 1898 and 1920, with translations into several foreign languages, was to be succeeded by HUMAN WORK. She wrote and rewrote the text, but was not satisfied with the result. When she realized it would not be ready for publication on time, she started another book, CONCERNING CHILDREN. Returning to HUMAN WORK again (having completed yet another book entitled THE HOME: Its Work and Influence), the author explained the length of time necessary to write it by saying it "was not to be reeled off like my usual stuff". [Lane, A. J. THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN]. Gilman thought the book her best and most important title, although it did not sell well, to her great disappointment. She brings together many of the same major themes of her first three books in HUMAN WORK: the economic subordination of women; the belief of human changeability and progress; and the need to replace male power with female principles of nurture and cooperation. The main theme, however, was the value of work as an end in itself, as its own reward rather than what work would "get" for the worker, as well as a corresponding disavowal of consumerism. An important text, the culmination of the writer’s most critical and influential thinking. NAW II, pp. 39-42. Scharnhorst 1104. WOMEN'S WRITING, pp. 348-350.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15311.jpg "First edition. First and only printing. Signed and dated at the front fee endpaper: \"Charlotte Perkins Gilman / 1909 — Jan. 26th\". 8vo, 390pp; brown gilt-stamped cloth. Tips and foot of spine lightly worn; additional mild wear along spine where it joins the front cover. Generally a firm, fresh and pleasing copy. Very good. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), a member of the illustrious Beecher family, is considered the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement. Her most important and influential book, WOMAN AND ECONOMICS (1898), an extremely successful book with nine printings between 1898 and 1920, with translations into several foreign languages, was to be succeeded by HUMAN WORK. She wrote and rewrote the text, but was not satisfied with the result. When she realized it would not be ready for publication on time, she started another book, CONCERNING CHILDREN. Returning to HUMAN WORK again (having completed yet another book entitled THE HOME: Its Work and Influence), the author explained the length of time necessary to write it by saying it \"was not to be reeled off like my usual stuff\". [Lane, A. J. THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN]. Gilman thought the book her best and most important title, although it did not sell well, to her great disappointment. She brings together many of the same major themes of her first three books in HUMAN WORK: the economic subordination of women; the belief of human changeability and progress; and the need to replace male power with female principles of nurture and cooperation. The main theme, however, was the value of work as an end in itself, as its own reward rather than what work would \"get\" for the worker, as well as a corresponding disavowal of consumerism. An important text, the culmination of the writer’s most critical and influential thinking. NAW II, pp. 39-42. Scharnhorst 1104. WOMEN'S WRITING, pp. 348-350.")
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904.
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Barton, Clara.
[Washington, DC]: [To Harriette Reed], Monday Jan 16. 93.
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Barton, Clara.
[Washington, DC]: [To Harriette Reed], Monday Jan 16. 93.
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Crepe Paper Handkerchief: PROGRAMME AND SOUVENIR Hyde Park, Sunday, June 21st
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[NP: , ca. 1908].
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[NP: , ca. 1908].
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854.
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[Mott, Lucretia].
[Philadelphia: Tyson, ND, but June 4, 1878].
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OBSERVATIONS ON A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS By Catharine Macaulay. The Second Edition, Corrected
Macaulay, Catharine.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770.
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Macaulay, Catharine.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770.
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![Only printing. Broadsheet: 13 x 8", <2>pp; printed on off-white stock — extract of the minutes at the recto and the docket title and publisher at the verso. From the placement of the latter, the broadsheet was designed to be folded up in quarters and filed with the docket title to the front. Creases and mild browning where folded; minor wear to edges; overall age-toning with light discoloration to small area at first paragraph. Generally very good. The broadsheet reviews the issues which were the focus of the 1820 annual meeting of Quaker women. It touches briefly on the difficulty of some in keeping awake during meetings: "The continuance of a drowsy spirit in our solemn assemblies is truly affecting". More significantly the broadsheet notes the need for educating children must be balanced against "an exposure that would place their innocence at risk" and urges mothers "to spare time from thy domestic engagements to give them the rudiments of learning, to lay a foundation that may be improved when a more favorable opportunity presents". (Note the task of educating the young appears to be the domain of the mother rather than the father.) The emphasis of the broadsheet, however, is on the "subject of company keeping and joining in marriage with those not of our Society". It urges the young to seek the advice of parents and admonishes mothers "be alive to whatever may promote the best interests of their beloved children as not to be influenced by improper motives, nor suffer the prospect of an advantageous settlement in life, to bias their judgment". The extract then continues that although a "delicate subject", yet "[we] are constrained to press it both on mothers and daughters to do away that unbecoming practice of sitting up after the usual hours for families to retire to rest, believing it inconsistent with that propriety of conduct which ought to mark all our proceedings". This scarce broadsheet offers suggestive comments on Quaker courtship and marriage, as well as the role of mothers in the education of their children. Abigail Evernghim [Thurston] (ca.1784-1851) acted as the clerk for the annual meeting of Quaker women from 1818 to 1823 and then again from 1825-1828. OCLC records the broadsheet is available as part of the Newsbank on-line data base of American broadsides and ephemera. It notes just two institutional holdings of the broadsheet proper: AAS and the University of Michigan.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15369.jpg "Only printing. Broadsheet: 13 x 8\", <2>pp; printed on off-white stock — extract of the minutes at the recto and the docket title and publisher at the verso. From the placement of the latter, the broadsheet was designed to be folded up in quarters and filed with the docket title to the front. Creases and mild browning where folded; minor wear to edges; overall age-toning with light discoloration to small area at first paragraph. Generally very good. The broadsheet reviews the issues which were the focus of the 1820 annual meeting of Quaker women. It touches briefly on the difficulty of some in keeping awake during meetings: \"The continuance of a drowsy spirit in our solemn assemblies is truly affecting\". More significantly the broadsheet notes the need for educating children must be balanced against \"an exposure that would place their innocence at risk\" and urges mothers \"to spare time from thy domestic engagements to give them the rudiments of learning, to lay a foundation that may be improved when a more favorable opportunity presents\". (Note the task of educating the young appears to be the domain of the mother rather than the father.) The emphasis of the broadsheet, however, is on the \"subject of company keeping and joining in marriage with those not of our Society\". It urges the young to seek the advice of parents and admonishes mothers \"be alive to whatever may promote the best interests of their beloved children as not to be influenced by improper motives, nor suffer the prospect of an advantageous settlement in life, to bias their judgment\". The extract then continues that although a \"delicate subject\", yet \"[we] are constrained to press it both on mothers and daughters to do away that unbecoming practice of sitting up after the usual hours for families to retire to rest, believing it inconsistent with that propriety of conduct which ought to mark all our proceedings\". This scarce broadsheet offers suggestive comments on Quaker courtship and marriage, as well as the role of mothers in the education of their children. Abigail Evernghim [Thurston] (ca.1784-1851) acted as the clerk for the annual meeting of Quaker women from 1818 to 1823 and then again from 1825-1828. OCLC records the broadsheet is available as part of the Newsbank on-line data base of American broadsides and ephemera. It notes just two institutional holdings of the broadsheet proper: AAS and the University of Michigan.")
Evernghim, Abigail.
[New York: Printed by James & John Harper, 189 Pearl Street, 1820].
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[Suffrage Ephemera],
[Los Angeles: The Wm. L. Hoegee Co., ca. 1911].
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Lyon, Mary.
South Hadley Canal: to Messrs. Merriam, Booksellers, Nov. 14, 1836.
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Lyon, Mary.
South Hadley Canal: to Messrs. Merriam, Booksellers, Nov. 14, 1836.
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Broadside: "The Congress Shall Have Power to Enforce this Article by Appropriate Legislation." Can Any Legislator Vote for This and Not Break His Oath of Office to His State?
[Anti Suffrage] Callaway, James.
Montgomery: Brown Printing Co., ca. 1919.
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[Anti Suffrage] Callaway, James.
Montgomery: Brown Printing Co., ca. 1919.
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![First edition. Inscribed at the title page: "Miss Ray Franks [sic] / with kind regards / from Lady Simon / Octr. 5th, 1898". 8vo, xi, 130pp; turquoise cloth stamped in blind and in gold at front and spine; pale green floral endpapers. Frontispiece portrait photograph, with tissue-guard, of Lady Simon. Tips and ends lightly rubbed. Generally very good. With a Preface. Some 53 extracts from Lady Simon's journals reflecting upon public events, such as the return to power of the Liberal Party and Gladstone as Prime Minister, and private matters, such as the death of a beloved son. Many of the extracts relate to religious and spiritual matters, especially from a Jewish perspective: "Judaism in its Practical Aspect"; "Purim, and the Jews of Roumania and Servia"; "Levitical Dietary Laws" and "The Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews". Also printed are two appendices: "Scripture References to the Subjects of the 'Spirit of God' and the "Peace of God" and "Summary of the Book of Job". Ray Frank [Litman] (ca. 1861-1948), journalist and teacher, was born in California to liberal Orthodox Jewish immigrants. Although her father was a simple fruit peddler, he was the descendant of a great 18th century rabbi, Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon. After graduation from high school, Frank taught school in Nevada for six years and then returned to California. She began to tutor privately and also write for various periodicals. And she taught Sabbath school classes at First Hebrew Congregation and soon became superintendent of its religious school. During the 1890s, she acted as correspondent for San Francisco and Oakland newspapers. On a visit to Spokane in 1890., she offered to preach at a Rosh Hashanah service as none had been planned. 1000 people attended. A gifted orator, she found herself asked to speak throughout the West and in 1893 appeared at the Jewish Women's Congress. Journalists dubbed her the "Female Messiah" and "The Girl Rabbi". Frank did attend Hebrew Union College for four months, but she did not seek ordination. Often referred to as "the first woman rabbi", Frank had deep reservations about women as rabbis. And, in fact, only in 1972 did a woman formally graduate from a theological college as a rabbi. With marriage, Frank ceased to speak publicly although she continued to work for Jewish organizations. OCLC cites five locations: Baylor, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and Cambridge University. See the Jewish Women Archives for more information on Ray Frank. A fine association.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/14564.jpg "First edition. Inscribed at the title page: \"Miss Ray Franks [sic] / with kind regards / from Lady Simon / Octr. 5th, 1898\". 8vo, xi, 130pp; turquoise cloth stamped in blind and in gold at front and spine; pale green floral endpapers. Frontispiece portrait photograph, with tissue-guard, of Lady Simon. Tips and ends lightly rubbed. Generally very good. With a Preface. Some 53 extracts from Lady Simon's journals reflecting upon public events, such as the return to power of the Liberal Party and Gladstone as Prime Minister, and private matters, such as the death of a beloved son. Many of the extracts relate to religious and spiritual matters, especially from a Jewish perspective: \"Judaism in its Practical Aspect\"; \"Purim, and the Jews of Roumania and Servia\"; \"Levitical Dietary Laws\" and \"The Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews\". Also printed are two appendices: \"Scripture References to the Subjects of the 'Spirit of God' and the \"Peace of God\" and \"Summary of the Book of Job\". Ray Frank [Litman] (ca. 1861-1948), journalist and teacher, was born in California to liberal Orthodox Jewish immigrants. Although her father was a simple fruit peddler, he was the descendant of a great 18th century rabbi, Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon. After graduation from high school, Frank taught school in Nevada for six years and then returned to California. She began to tutor privately and also write for various periodicals. And she taught Sabbath school classes at First Hebrew Congregation and soon became superintendent of its religious school. During the 1890s, she acted as correspondent for San Francisco and Oakland newspapers. On a visit to Spokane in 1890., she offered to preach at a Rosh Hashanah service as none had been planned. 1000 people attended. A gifted orator, she found herself asked to speak throughout the West and in 1893 appeared at the Jewish Women's Congress. Journalists dubbed her the \"Female Messiah\" and \"The Girl Rabbi\". Frank did attend Hebrew Union College for four months, but she did not seek ordination. Often referred to as \"the first woman rabbi\", Frank had deep reservations about women as rabbis. And, in fact, only in 1972 did a woman formally graduate from a theological college as a rabbi. With marriage, Frank ceased to speak publicly although she continued to work for Jewish organizations. OCLC cites five locations: Baylor, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and Cambridge University. See the Jewish Women Archives for more information on Ray Frank. A fine association.")
Simon, Lady [Rachel].
London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1894.
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![Only edition. Trade catalog: 9-1/4 x 6-1/4", [12]pp; light brown wrappers (stapled) illustrated with three pieces of Paul Revere Ware’ the logo of the Paul Revere Pottery at the rear cover. Illustrated with photographs of the Nottingham Hill studio; an artist painting a large vase; and the studio's offerings. Touch of dampstaining to upper front cover and first leaf; pencil note at second page of price list. Generally very good. The catalog prints brief profile of the Paul Revere Pottery; photographs of its offerings; and, a complete price list. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery (1908-1942) arose out of the confluence of the Arts and Crafts Movement with the women's movement and the progressive spirit of the early 1900s. Founders and artists Edith Brown and Edith Guerrier had the full support of Boston philanthropist Helen Storrow in this experiment to provide a vocation for talented young women and convey the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement in pottery. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery became especially known for their engaging children's ware painted with geese, baby chicks and bunnies and often individualized with children’s names or initials. The Pottery produced lamps, flower vases, bowls, candlesticks, tea caddies, trays, desk sets, pitchers, etc. The pottery invoked a simple elegance in the shape of its ware and often relied on its glazes solely for decoration. The catalog notes: "The motto chosen for the ware on the first little circular is still and always will be the message the potters hope each piece will be worthy to carry - We derive all the value in us from the fact that our makers wrought at us with zeal, with integrity, with fail to do nobly an honest thing". From its inception, the studio attracted an appreciative clientele and wide interest among contemporaries for its mission and its wares. While the studio ceased operation during World War II, its pottery has continue to rise in the collectible market and its influence continues to be assessed by scholars. OCLC records no holding, and only four locations of a 1915 catalog and two locations of a slightly smaller, undated, catalog. Not in McKinstry or Romaine. See: Gadsden, Nonie, ART & REFORM: Sara Galner, The Saturday Evening Girls, and The Paul Revere Pottery (2006, published in connection with the exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); and Chalmer, Meg and Judy L. Young, THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS; PAUL REVERE POTTERY (2005).](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15116.jpg "Only edition. Trade catalog: 9-1/4 x 6-1/4\", [12]pp; light brown wrappers (stapled) illustrated with three pieces of Paul Revere Ware’ the logo of the Paul Revere Pottery at the rear cover. Illustrated with photographs of the Nottingham Hill studio; an artist painting a large vase; and the studio's offerings. Touch of dampstaining to upper front cover and first leaf; pencil note at second page of price list. Generally very good. The catalog prints brief profile of the Paul Revere Pottery; photographs of its offerings; and, a complete price list. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery (1908-1942) arose out of the confluence of the Arts and Crafts Movement with the women's movement and the progressive spirit of the early 1900s. Founders and artists Edith Brown and Edith Guerrier had the full support of Boston philanthropist Helen Storrow in this experiment to provide a vocation for talented young women and convey the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement in pottery. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery became especially known for their engaging children's ware painted with geese, baby chicks and bunnies and often individualized with children’s names or initials. The Pottery produced lamps, flower vases, bowls, candlesticks, tea caddies, trays, desk sets, pitchers, etc. The pottery invoked a simple elegance in the shape of its ware and often relied on its glazes solely for decoration. The catalog notes: \"The motto chosen for the ware on the first little circular is still and always will be the message the potters hope each piece will be worthy to carry - We derive all the value in us from the fact that our makers wrought at us with zeal, with integrity, with fail to do nobly an honest thing\". From its inception, the studio attracted an appreciative clientele and wide interest among contemporaries for its mission and its wares. While the studio ceased operation during World War II, its pottery has continue to rise in the collectible market and its influence continues to be assessed by scholars. OCLC records no holding, and only four locations of a 1915 catalog and two locations of a slightly smaller, undated, catalog. Not in McKinstry or Romaine. See: Gadsden, Nonie, ART & REFORM: Sara Galner, The Saturday Evening Girls, and The Paul Revere Pottery (2006, published in connection with the exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); and Chalmer, Meg and Judy L. Young, THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS; PAUL REVERE POTTERY (2005).")
[Saturday Evening Girls],
Brighton, Massachusetts: Paul Revere, [ca. 1921].
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