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Barlow, Marjorie Dana.
New York: The Hroswitha Club, 1976.
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![First edition. 12mo (7-3/8 x 5"), iv, 107pp; + publisher's catalogue; brick cloth stamped in black at front cover and in blind at rear. Printed endpapers, with publisher offerings. Touch of wear to tips and ends; occasional pencil markings to text. Very good. No. IX of "The Handy-Book Series". The author discusses: "Outline History of Costume"; "What We Mean by Dressing Well"; "Things Indispensable"; "Color, Form and Suitability"; "Estimates of Cost"; "How and What to Buy"; and, "Hints on Dress". The author considers the fashions which men have worn, in some periods more elaborate and fantastical than those for women, with observations such as: "In France [the whimsies of Fashion] were often more ridiculous than in England; for in that country Fashion has ever been more fickle than elsewhere, and in her haste to adopt the new, she has more often accepted the hideous or the comic". Gale has a sharpish tongue which she enjoys exercising with the advice she dispenses: "The sylph who scarcely turns the scales at a hundred pounds, cannot carry the flowing mantles which have become necessary to obscure the too expansive outlines of the matron, whose position in a carriage is sufficiently indicated by the condition of the springs". However, she lays down clear, straightforward guidelines undoubtedly useful to her readers. "The Handy-Book Series" also includes "How to Educate Yourself", "Social Economy", "The Home", by Frank Stockton, "What to Eat", etc. . OCLC: 1289101.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15411.jpg "First edition. 12mo (7-3/8 x 5\"), iv, 107pp; + publisher's catalogue; brick cloth stamped in black at front cover and in blind at rear. Printed endpapers, with publisher offerings. Touch of wear to tips and ends; occasional pencil markings to text. Very good. No. IX of \"The Handy-Book Series\". The author discusses: \"Outline History of Costume\"; \"What We Mean by Dressing Well\"; \"Things Indispensable\"; \"Color, Form and Suitability\"; \"Estimates of Cost\"; \"How and What to Buy\"; and, \"Hints on Dress\". The author considers the fashions which men have worn, in some periods more elaborate and fantastical than those for women, with observations such as: \"In France [the whimsies of Fashion] were often more ridiculous than in England; for in that country Fashion has ever been more fickle than elsewhere, and in her haste to adopt the new, she has more often accepted the hideous or the comic\". Gale has a sharpish tongue which she enjoys exercising with the advice she dispenses: \"The sylph who scarcely turns the scales at a hundred pounds, cannot carry the flowing mantles which have become necessary to obscure the too expansive outlines of the matron, whose position in a carriage is sufficiently indicated by the condition of the springs\". However, she lays down clear, straightforward guidelines undoubtedly useful to her readers. \"The Handy-Book Series\" also includes \"How to Educate Yourself\", \"Social Economy\", \"The Home\", by Frank Stockton, \"What to Eat\", etc. . OCLC: 1289101.")
[Advice Literature] Gale, Ethel C..
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872.
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[Anti-suffrage],
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1911.
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![Only printing. Pamphlet: 9-1/8 x 5-3/4", 16pp; printed buff self-wrappers (stapled). Near fine. Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison and served as an associate justice from 1891 to 1906. In his address, Brown refutes the idea that "either men or women have a natural right to vote": "They may be said to have a natural right to protection in their persons, their property and their opinions, but they have no natural right to govern or to participate in the government of others." [A remarkable position for a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.] Furthermore, state laws often favor women over men, supporting he suggests, womanly distaste for "manual labor". If women should be and are equal under the law they still differ from men, which Brown sets out in five brief sentences. Among women's deficits , for instance, is "The dispassionate view of important questions, which we call the judicial temperament". Their strengths, which he also enumerates, lie in the domestic sphere. And, like many antisuffragists, he envisions danger in granting the vote "to large classes who have not heretofore enjoyed it. True, this is a government of the people, but not necessarily of all persons constituting the people." Brown concludes his address by declaring that "in winning public favor they will leave behind them something of their attachment to the virtues of private life; that contact with coarse men at the polls will familiarize them with the vulgarities of politics; in short, that in becoming more like men they will become less like women". Kinnard, ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, 620. OCLC notes numerous institutions with microform copies; but, just five institutions hold the pamphlet itself: Connecticut Historical Society, Mount Holyoke College, NYPL, Tulane University and University of Ottawa.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15397.jpg "Only printing. Pamphlet: 9-1/8 x 5-3/4\", 16pp; printed buff self-wrappers (stapled). Near fine. Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison and served as an associate justice from 1891 to 1906. In his address, Brown refutes the idea that \"either men or women have a natural right to vote\": \"They may be said to have a natural right to protection in their persons, their property and their opinions, but they have no natural right to govern or to participate in the government of others.\" [A remarkable position for a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.] Furthermore, state laws often favor women over men, supporting he suggests, womanly distaste for \"manual labor\". If women should be and are equal under the law they still differ from men, which Brown sets out in five brief sentences. Among women's deficits , for instance, is \"The dispassionate view of important questions, which we call the judicial temperament\". Their strengths, which he also enumerates, lie in the domestic sphere. And, like many antisuffragists, he envisions danger in granting the vote \"to large classes who have not heretofore enjoyed it. True, this is a government of the people, but not necessarily of all persons constituting the people.\" Brown concludes his address by declaring that \"in winning public favor they will leave behind them something of their attachment to the virtues of private life; that contact with coarse men at the polls will familiarize them with the vulgarities of politics; in short, that in becoming more like men they will become less like women\". Kinnard, ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, 620. OCLC notes numerous institutions with microform copies; but, just five institutions hold the pamphlet itself: Connecticut Historical Society, Mount Holyoke College, NYPL, Tulane University and University of Ottawa.")
[Anti-suffrage] Brown, Henry Billings.
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1910].
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[LOWELL OFFERING],
Lowell: Misses Curtis & Farley, 1844.
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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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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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[Women's Liberation] Koedt, Anne (ed).
New York: Notes from the Third Year, 1971.
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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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[Suffrage, Michigan],
St. Louis, Mich.: Michigan W.C.T.U. Press Bureau, [c. 1913-1918].
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[Suffrage],
[NP: , c. 1914].
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[Suffrage, California],
[Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Woman Suffrage League, c. 1901].
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![Only edition. Pamphlet: 6 x 3-1/2", 12pp; beige wrappers (stapled) printed in blue. Illustrated with a black and white suffrage map at page 3. Near fine. The pamphlet uses the formula which shaped numerous suffrage broadsides — a set phrase followed by an argument for woman suffrage. "HAVE YOU HEARD", in bold, "That woman suffrage is coming all the world around"; or "That the women of Great Britain and Ireland had equal suffrage for many years on equal terms with men in all elections except for members of Parliament..."; or "That the women of nineteen States will vote for the next President of the United States?". The pamphlet enumerates the countries where women can vote, the states where woman have suffrage and the various anti-suffrage forces which seek to deny or curtail women's rights. HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE records that the although Maine women had sought the vote throughout the latter half of the 19th century, organized woman suffrage had few resources and fewer monies. When the Maine legislature voted to put a woman suffrage amendment before the voters in the fall of 1917, suffragists had a campaign fund of $500 and six months, in the midst of a newly declared war, to persuade Maine voters to their cause. Deborah Knox Livingston, a NAWSA organizer, reported: "Maine presented as difficult a field for the conducting of a suffrage campaign as has ever been faced by any group of suffragists in any part of the country". But, the "argument for suffrage...was put before the voters very thoroughly. One hundred thousand [fliers] were circularized with the convincing speeches of U.S. Senator Shafroth of Colorado and later with a leaflet Have you Heard the News? which carried the strong appeal of the suffrage gains over the entire world". Harper, Ida (ed.), HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Vol. VI, pp. 239-240OCLC does not locate a copy.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15301.jpg "Only edition. Pamphlet: 6 x 3-1/2\", 12pp; beige wrappers (stapled) printed in blue. Illustrated with a black and white suffrage map at page 3. Near fine. The pamphlet uses the formula which shaped numerous suffrage broadsides — a set phrase followed by an argument for woman suffrage. \"HAVE YOU HEARD\", in bold, \"That woman suffrage is coming all the world around\"; or \"That the women of Great Britain and Ireland had equal suffrage for many years on equal terms with men in all elections except for members of Parliament...\"; or \"That the women of nineteen States will vote for the next President of the United States?\". The pamphlet enumerates the countries where women can vote, the states where woman have suffrage and the various anti-suffrage forces which seek to deny or curtail women's rights. HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE records that the although Maine women had sought the vote throughout the latter half of the 19th century, organized woman suffrage had few resources and fewer monies. When the Maine legislature voted to put a woman suffrage amendment before the voters in the fall of 1917, suffragists had a campaign fund of $500 and six months, in the midst of a newly declared war, to persuade Maine voters to their cause. Deborah Knox Livingston, a NAWSA organizer, reported: \"Maine presented as difficult a field for the conducting of a suffrage campaign as has ever been faced by any group of suffragists in any part of the country\". But, the \"argument for suffrage...was put before the voters very thoroughly. One hundred thousand [fliers] were circularized with the convincing speeches of U.S. Senator Shafroth of Colorado and later with a leaflet Have you Heard the News? which carried the strong appeal of the suffrage gains over the entire world\". Harper, Ida (ed.), HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Vol. VI, pp. 239-240OCLC does not locate a copy.")
[Suffrage, Maine], Woman Suffrage Committee.
[Bangor, Maine: Woman Suffrage Campaign Committee Printed by N.W.S. Pub. Co., August, 1917].
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[Suffrage, California] Simons, Mrs. Seward Adams .
Los Angeles: Political Equality League, [1905?].
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[Feminism], S[an] F[rancisco] NOW.
[San Francisco, CA: S.F. NOW, c. 1981].
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Pamphlet: "First Annual Meeting of The Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee"
[Suffrage, Arkansas],
Little Rock, Arkansas: Central Printing Co., [c. 1918].
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[Suffrage, Arkansas],
Little Rock, Arkansas: Central Printing Co., [c. 1918].
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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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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co. London: Sampson Low & Co., 1871.
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![Handbill - 8 x5-1/4", printed black on buff paper, with printer's union logo present. Printed both sides: "Suffrage Song" on one side, "Battle Hymn" on the other. Slight rumpling and mild creasing; 1/4" closed tear to left edge (not affecting text). Very good. Music and suffrage songs became an integral part of suffrage meetings, rallies, conventions and marches. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, for instance, in 1886, reported a meeting at which an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's ditty with the lines "and his cousins & his sisters & his aunts" had been promised with all those female relatives, of course, receiving the vote. Often, suffrage songs were parodies or adaptations, such as here with this version of "America". ["My country 'tis for thee/To make your women free, This is our plea./High have our hopes been raised/In these enlightened days/That for her justice, praised/Our land might be." (1st verse)] In 1909 a suffrage songbook was published which included "original songs, parodies and paraphrases" according to its subtitle. Two years later Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her "Suffrage Songs and Verses". Julia Ward Howe's great lyric, "Battle Hymn of the Republic", held a special niche in the woman's rights movement, however. The example of Howe's leadership and the stirring words of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" helped to stiffen the resolve of suffragists through the many long years it took to achieve their purpose. More than any other lyric or song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was the suffrage anthem. Given the lightweight stock on which this was printed, probably the handbill was distributed at a rally or march and intended to have a few hours' of use only. An unlikely but eloquent survivor.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15213.jpg "Handbill - 8 x5-1/4\", printed black on buff paper, with printer's union logo present. Printed both sides: \"Suffrage Song\" on one side, \"Battle Hymn\" on the other. Slight rumpling and mild creasing; 1/4\" closed tear to left edge (not affecting text). Very good. Music and suffrage songs became an integral part of suffrage meetings, rallies, conventions and marches. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, for instance, in 1886, reported a meeting at which an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's ditty with the lines \"and his cousins & his sisters & his aunts\" had been promised with all those female relatives, of course, receiving the vote. Often, suffrage songs were parodies or adaptations, such as here with this version of \"America\". [\"My country 'tis for thee/To make your women free, This is our plea./High have our hopes been raised/In these enlightened days/That for her justice, praised/Our land might be.\" (1st verse)] In 1909 a suffrage songbook was published which included \"original songs, parodies and paraphrases\" according to its subtitle. Two years later Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her \"Suffrage Songs and Verses\". Julia Ward Howe's great lyric, \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\", held a special niche in the woman's rights movement, however. The example of Howe's leadership and the stirring words of \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\" helped to stiffen the resolve of suffragists through the many long years it took to achieve their purpose. More than any other lyric or song, \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\" was the suffrage anthem. Given the lightweight stock on which this was printed, probably the handbill was distributed at a rally or march and intended to have a few hours' of use only. An unlikely but eloquent survivor.")
[Suffrage],
[NP]: [NAWSA], [ND].
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![Only edition. Trade catalogue: 6-3/4 x 5-1/8", 32pp; buff card stock covers, front cover embossed with decorative frame setting off the title; yellow cotton cord tie binding text and covers. Small shallow stain at upper forecorner of text. Tiny puncture to front cover; pin scratch to rear cover; mild overall age-toning/dustiness. Very good. In-text illustrations in bluish-green throughout including diagrams of various sewing stitches. Author's facsimile signature appears at the end of the story. In addition to "A Fairy at School", the trade catalogue prints "In Praise of Needlework" with topics such as "What Sewing Teaches"; "A Cure for Kinks"; "What Annie Keary Thinks of Sewing"; "Needlework in History and Literature"; "Princess Alexandra's Jacket"; and "A Teacher of Economy". The catalogue appears to have been issued as a promotional piece for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; the final paragraph quotes GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, BLUE AND GRAY which speaks of "the mighty World's Fair which is ever going on". Although published posthumously, the story, clearly commissioned by the manufacturer, tells of how Titania, queen of the fairies, requires lovely, idle Idola to learn how to be useful. Titania transforms the sullen fairy into a cotton plant and the story then traces how raw cotton becomes delicate thread. Illustrations depict a thread mill, very likely Willimantic, with effusive descriptions of the building, the happy girls who work the machinery and the amenities afforded them: "the carders and combers were tended by alert and active girls, dressed with simple neatness, glowing with health, and showing in every look intelligence and capacity"; a "long, wide hall" is a reading room, "the sides set with cases full of books, the shelves above ornamented with busts, and at the convenient tables eager and intense faces reading papers, pamphlets, magazines"; and at work's end, the young women go to "great swarming houses full as a May hive; [and] some to a group of quaint and pretty cottages". Once Idola's translation from sprite to thread is complete, Titania declares she has gone to be of "use to the world". Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) wrote verse, short stories and occasional prose pieces such as her profiles of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Spofford in OUR FAMOUS WOMEN. Scholars and critics now consider her a pioneer of the local color school, using dialect and homely detail to create a sense of authenticity. This merging of fiction and advertising must have been among the last of her writings. Not noted in BAL. OCLC records seven locations: Connecticut Historical Society; Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Yale University; American Textile History Museum Library; Harvard University (Baker Business Library); Philadelphia University; and, the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In addition, although not noted by OCLC, the Library of Congress holds a copy.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15179.jpg "Only edition. Trade catalogue: 6-3/4 x 5-1/8\", 32pp; buff card stock covers, front cover embossed with decorative frame setting off the title; yellow cotton cord tie binding text and covers. Small shallow stain at upper forecorner of text. Tiny puncture to front cover; pin scratch to rear cover; mild overall age-toning/dustiness. Very good. In-text illustrations in bluish-green throughout including diagrams of various sewing stitches. Author's facsimile signature appears at the end of the story. In addition to \"A Fairy at School\", the trade catalogue prints \"In Praise of Needlework\" with topics such as \"What Sewing Teaches\"; \"A Cure for Kinks\"; \"What Annie Keary Thinks of Sewing\"; \"Needlework in History and Literature\"; \"Princess Alexandra's Jacket\"; and \"A Teacher of Economy\". The catalogue appears to have been issued as a promotional piece for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; the final paragraph quotes GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, BLUE AND GRAY which speaks of \"the mighty World's Fair which is ever going on\". Although published posthumously, the story, clearly commissioned by the manufacturer, tells of how Titania, queen of the fairies, requires lovely, idle Idola to learn how to be useful. Titania transforms the sullen fairy into a cotton plant and the story then traces how raw cotton becomes delicate thread. Illustrations depict a thread mill, very likely Willimantic, with effusive descriptions of the building, the happy girls who work the machinery and the amenities afforded them: \"the carders and combers were tended by alert and active girls, dressed with simple neatness, glowing with health, and showing in every look intelligence and capacity\"; a \"long, wide hall\" is a reading room, \"the sides set with cases full of books, the shelves above ornamented with busts, and at the convenient tables eager and intense faces reading papers, pamphlets, magazines\"; and at work's end, the young women go to \"great swarming houses full as a May hive; [and] some to a group of quaint and pretty cottages\". Once Idola's translation from sprite to thread is complete, Titania declares she has gone to be of \"use to the world\". Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) wrote verse, short stories and occasional prose pieces such as her profiles of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Spofford in OUR FAMOUS WOMEN. Scholars and critics now consider her a pioneer of the local color school, using dialect and homely detail to create a sense of authenticity. This merging of fiction and advertising must have been among the last of her writings. Not noted in BAL. OCLC records seven locations: Connecticut Historical Society; Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Yale University; American Textile History Museum Library; Harvard University (Baker Business Library); Philadelphia University; and, the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In addition, although not noted by OCLC, the Library of Congress holds a copy.")
Cooke, Rose Terry.
[Willimantic, Conn.: Willimantic Thread Co., ca. 1893].
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