Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![3732009] [The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873...](/pictures/thumb/3732009_1.jpg?v=1659034749)
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...
![3731996] A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women](/pictures/thumb/3731996_1.jpg?v=1655172556)
The New York Times described the event thus: “Women will be whooping it up tonight at 9 in the Manhattan Theater Club, 321 East 73d..... Read More about A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women
![3731929] A Marsh Island. [First Gay American Novel]. Sarah Orne Jewett](/images/noimage-req.png)
Dr. Don James McLaughlin at the University of Tulsa has proposed that Jewett’s work is the first gay American novel. “In A Marsh Island, the..... Read More about A Marsh Island. [First Gay American Novel
![3731919] Golden Pomegranates of Eden. Elizabeth Marney Conner, pseud. Paul Veronique](/pictures/thumb/3731919_1.jpg?v=1652910752)
Unrecorded and sole(?) edition of the feminist musings and declarations by this little-known author, with highly-spiritual and unusual beliefs. Elizabeth Marney Conner (pseud. Paul Veronique)..... Read More about Golden Pomegranates of Eden
![3731621] Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Elizabeth...](/pictures/thumb/3731621_1.jpg?v=1652915196)
Inscribed by a Louiville suffragette and co-founder of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. The first edition of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s autobiography, an “account of her..... Read More about Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
![3731503] 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then...](/pictures/thumb/3731503_1.jpg?v=1651626347)
“Mrs. Kingman, If you please, Think of me, at twilight hour, And I will think of thee.” The Osgoods of Cincinnatus, New York, John Osgood..... Read More about 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by...
![3731445] October Journey. (Signed). Margaret Walker](/pictures/thumb/3731445_1.jpg?v=1658606785)
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about October Journey. (Signed
![3731444] Prophets for a New Day. (Signed). Margaret Walker](/pictures/thumb/3731444_1.jpg?v=1658606785)
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about Prophets for a New Day. (Signed
![3731439] This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed). Margaret Walker](/pictures/thumb/3731439_1.jpg?v=1658603137)
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed
![3731219] [Three Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co.]. Arzalea...](/pictures/thumb/3731219_1.jpg?v=1641608480)
Three play, pantomime, and stage dialogue scripts written by two obscure women writers and one anonymous author. School Publishing Company of Darrowville, Ohio printed a...... Read More about Three Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co
![3731209] Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories. M. D. Ruth Clement](/pictures/thumb/3731209_1.jpg?v=1638342302)
Ruth Clement was a Quaker physician. Where she earned her medical degree is unknown, but in her book —a mixture of poetry, short stories, and..... Read More about Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories
![3730936] Mrs. Barney’s Letter, To Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, in reply to...](/pictures/thumb/3730936_1.jpg?v=1634220251)
An attack on President Andrew Jackson’s “spoils system” and his “Office Harpies” by Mary Chase Barney, an outspoken Baltimorean, and later magazine-founder and editor. After..... Read More about Mrs. Barney’s Letter, To Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, in reply to one from...
![3731093] Meditations on Votes for Women. Samuel McChord Crothers](/pictures/thumb/3731093_1.jpg?v=1632404263)
Scarce in publisher’s dust jacket. Crothers, a native of Oswego, Illinois, was an essayist and Unitarian clergyman. Meditations addressed common objections against giving women the..... Read More about Meditations on Votes for Women
![3730856] Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/3730856_1.jpg?v=1632404239)
Cabinet card photograph of evangelist Catherine Booth (1829–1890), wife of General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. She was a prolific writer for the..... Read More about Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title
![3731102] Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems. Katharine S. Harrington](/pictures/thumb/3731102_1.jpg?v=1634184317)
First edition. Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems
![3731055] Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna. Ella Maude Stewart,...](/pictures/thumb/3731055_1.jpg?v=1638590777)
Obscure American fiction by this female author from Clifford Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Ella Maude Stewart Dann (d. 1943) was born with a significant..... Read More about Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna
![3730475] [Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers]....](/pictures/thumb/3730475_1.jpg?v=1630610179)
An almost life-size portrait of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), the eminent eighteenth-century American poet, issued by the Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C. The firm was..... Read More about Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers
![3730870] England’s Girls and England’s Future. M. D. Mary Scharlieb, M. S., Barbara Butts](/pictures/thumb/3730870_1.jpg?v=1634065520)
A 1917 small pamphlet issued by the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases; published as sex education to teach women of the ills of syphilis..... Read More about England’s Girls and England’s Future
![3730857] Mattie G. Allison, Evangelist. [caption title of photograph; offered with a second...](/pictures/thumb/3730857_1.jpg?v=1628131424)
Cabinet card photograph of Methodist evangelist Mattie G. Allison (?–1932), ordained minister and pastor of several churches in Missouri. The full-length studio portrait shows Allison..... Read More about Mattie G. Allison, Evangelist. [caption title of photograph; offered with a second photograph of...
![3730818] River Rhymes and Rhymes Betimes. Maud Emett Cutler](/pictures/thumb/3730818_1.jpg?v=1628131413)
Scarce American poetry by this little-known woman author; apparently the poet’s first and only publication. The author married Clinton E.B. Cutler, a Joliet, Illinois lawyer..... Read More about River Rhymes and Rhymes Betimes
![3730816] Poems. Hattie Howard](/pictures/thumb/3730816_1.jpg?v=1629864272)
Self published and scarce. The author’s first book and the first of four volumes of poetry by this Connecticut native and Hartford poet. Hartford: 1886..... Read More about Poems
![3730815] The Life of a Hindu Woman and the Biography of Libbie Cilley Griffin. (Signed). Rev....](/pictures/thumb/3730815_1.jpg?v=1628131411)
First edition. Inscribed by the author, an excellent copy of this scarce and privately printed biography. A Michigan-native and college-educated, Libbie Cilley Griffin served as..... Read More about The Life of a Hindu Woman and the Biography of Libbie Cilley Griffin. (Signed
![3730807] Following the Guidon. E B. Custer](/pictures/thumb/3730807_1.jpg?v=1628131408)
A stunning copy of this narrative of army life on the American Western frontier by the wife of General George Armstrong Custer. With the dramatic..... Read More about Following the Guidon
![3730805] Church Street. Stories of American Village Life. Jean Carter Cochran](/pictures/thumb/3730805_1.jpg?v=1632351968)
Uncommon in dust jacket; Jean Carter Cochran (1876-1968) writes an encompassing profile of a New Jersey town, recounting the culture and norms of its society..... Read More about Church Street. Stories of American Village Life
![3730571] [Autograph Note Signed by Anne-Marie du Boccage, 18th-Century French Writer, Poet,...](/pictures/thumb/3730571_1.jpg?v=1624502587)
French Revolutionary-era note by French feminist writer and salonnière Anne-Marie du Boccage (1710–1802) who Voltaire called the “Sappho of Normandy.” Du Boccage and her spouse..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed by Anne-Marie du Boccage, 18th-Century French Writer, Poet, Playwright, and...
