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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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"The Suffrage Danger" in THE LIVING AGE Seventh Series Volume LVI, No. 3553 August 10, 1912
[Anti Suffrage] Tadema, Laurence Alma.
Boston: The Living Age Company, 1912.
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[Anti Suffrage] Tadema, Laurence Alma.
Boston: The Living Age Company, 1912.
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Baronti, Gerve [pseud., Mrs. Paul R. Danner].
Boston: The Cornhill Company, (1917).
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Larcom, Lucy.
Boston, New York and Chicago: Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press Cambridge, [ND].
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![First edition. Revised and with a new introduction. Inscribed by the author at the half title page: "For [Sir] Jerry Sloane / who needn't (but / really should) read it. / Edna Ferber / New York May / 1960". 8vo, 383pp; smooth black cloth stamped in turquoise and gold and front and spine; black, orange and green dust jacket with photograph of the writer at the front panel. Illustrated. Offsetting at front endpapers from a newspaper clipping; spine of jacket and book bear a 1/2" cut from a knife or other sharp implement; mild overall wear to jacket. About very good. Sir Jerry Sloane was only 18 when he met the formidable American author Edna Ferber. Though she had sufficient success and self-confidence to render herself difficult more often than not, she and the young Scots aristocrat became friends. When he confessed he had not read her autobiography, this inscribed copy of A PECULIAR TREASURE appeared. She had published the first version of her autobiography in 1939, in the shadow of the coming world war. The revised version reflects the enormous events and changes in attitude which occurred during the two intervening decades. She emphasizes that, even with the revisions, "The book is what it originally was, the autobiography f an American Jewish child, girl and woman, born in the Middle West in the middle eighties".](/wharton/images/items/120x300/13211.jpg "First edition. Revised and with a new introduction. Inscribed by the author at the half title page: \"For [Sir] Jerry Sloane / who needn't (but / really should) read it. / Edna Ferber / New York May / 1960\". 8vo, 383pp; smooth black cloth stamped in turquoise and gold and front and spine; black, orange and green dust jacket with photograph of the writer at the front panel. Illustrated. Offsetting at front endpapers from a newspaper clipping; spine of jacket and book bear a 1/2\" cut from a knife or other sharp implement; mild overall wear to jacket. About very good. Sir Jerry Sloane was only 18 when he met the formidable American author Edna Ferber. Though she had sufficient success and self-confidence to render herself difficult more often than not, she and the young Scots aristocrat became friends. When he confessed he had not read her autobiography, this inscribed copy of A PECULIAR TREASURE appeared. She had published the first version of her autobiography in 1939, in the shadow of the coming world war. The revised version reflects the enormous events and changes in attitude which occurred during the two intervening decades. She emphasizes that, even with the revisions, \"The book is what it originally was, the autobiography f an American Jewish child, girl and woman, born in the Middle West in the middle eighties\".")
Ferber, Edna.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.
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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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Woolf, Virginia.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929.
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854.
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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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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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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
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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[Women & Politics] Nat'l Federation of Republican Women,
Washington, D.C.: National Federation of Republican Women, (1953).
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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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[Women & Politics], Republican National Committee.
Washington, D.C.: Republican National Committee, [ND, but ca. 1932].
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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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Broadside: BY-LAWS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND WOMEN’S CLUB
[Women’s],
[NP: , ca. 1894].
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[Women’s],
[NP: , ca. 1894].
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[Suffrage],
Washington, D.C.: National Woman's Party, [ca. 1916].
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[Suffrage Ephemera],
Rochester, NY: Bastion Bros., [ND, but ca. 1915].
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[Suffrage Ephemera],
Rochester, N.Y.: Bastion Bros. Co., c. 1911-1917].
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[Suffrage],
(52-55 Pratt St., Hartford, Conn.): Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, [ND, but c. 1910-1920].
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