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.
Autobiography written by this important Black feminist preacher. Foote’s text “attacks racism and other social abuses, the subordination of women, especially in the spiritual realm..... Read More about A Brand Plucked from the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A.J. Foote
Victorian Female Journalist vs. Same. Elizabeth Bisland’s 1891 account of her “race around-the-world” to beat another “Elizabeth” —Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman— better known as Nelly Bly..... Read More about A Flying Trip Around the World ... In Seven Stages
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...
Autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is noted for her advocacy..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
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
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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
This Michigan-native’s first book. Pre-First World War book on child development, psychology, and rearing. With chapters on marriage and motherhood, the role of the father..... Read More about Child, Home and School
The story of Double Darling, a girl who is “twice as good and twice as beautiful as other children.” With color illustrations, using black and..... Read More about Double Darling and the Dream Spinner
Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa, New York..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems
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
An almost life-size portrait of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), eighteenth-century Black American poet. Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C. were established in 1921 by Carter G...... Read More about Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers, a Black Publishing...
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A Poem by Cunard on the French Resistance during the Second World War. Derby [England]: Printed for Kenneth Hopkins, The Grasshopper Press, 1944. Limited to..... Read More about Relève Into Maquis. [Releve Into Maquis
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
Cabinet card photograph of Methodist evangelist Mattie G. Allison (?–1932), ordained minister and pastor of several churches in Missouri. The full-length stdio portrait shows Allison..... Read More about Mattie G. Allison, Evangelist. [caption title of photograph; offered with a second photograph of...
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
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
Inscribed and signed by the author, an excellent copy of this privately printed and scarce 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
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
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
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...
1854 Annual catalogue of Opheleton Female Seminary, an all-girls school in Easton, Pennsylvania. The seminary was founded by E. Dean Dow in 1850 and closed..... Read More about Annual Catalogue of the Opheleton Female Seminary. Easton, Northampton County, Pa. For the Years...
1852 Catalogue for Oakland Female Institute, an all-girls school at Norristown, Pennsylvania founded by James Grier Ralston in 1845. Ralston “takes exalted rank among the..... Read More about Circular and Catalogue of the Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, Pa. For the year ending Sept....
“There is something over powering in the sense of one’s littleness as you look across this great trackless ocean and then up to the immense..... Read More about Archive of 39 Autograph Letters Signed, 1897–1898, of a Grand Tour taken by two Brooklyn Women
Address on education delivered by Hiram Winchester of Frederick Female Seminary, an all-girls school in Frederick, Maryland. Winchester’s address, delivered in Maryland’s state capitol discusses..... Read More about A Lecture on Popular Education, delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, at Annapolis, on...
1850 publication for Frederick Female Seminary, an all-girls school founded in Frederick, Maryland by Hiram Winchester and chartered in 1840. The school, which was divided..... Read More about Fifth Annual Circular and Catalogue of the Frederick Female Seminary, for the Year ending July...
