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.
![3732979] Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti. (Presentation copy). Maya Deren, Eleonora...](/pictures/thumb/3732979_1.jpg?v=1679605654)
First edition. Inscribed by author, a giant in the history of avant-garde film in America: “For Herb — Simply, Maya.” Herbert Passin was a scholar..... Read More about Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti. (Presentation copy
![3733222] Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of...](/pictures/thumb/3733222_1.jpg?v=1679339319)
Photograph of the soundstage and set of an experimental, early television production of Helen Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles. The 1916 play, based on a real-life..... Read More about Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of “Trifles,”...
![3733219] 1905 Photograph of women attending the National Electric Light Association Convention in...](/pictures/thumb/3733219_1.jpg?v=1679422069)
This image shows a large group of women posed on the Antlers Hotel verandah and front steps in Colorado Springs. These women attended the 28th..... Read More about 1905 Photograph of women attending the National Electric Light Association Convention in Colorado...
![3733198] First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida...](/pictures/thumb/3733198_1.jpg?v=1677027805)
This unusual ca. 1918 photograph illustrates the home front contributions of Hernando County women to aid the war effort. The image shows an elaborate, prominently..... Read More about First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida Courthouse
![3733001] A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson:...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Philadelphian John Hewson (1745–1821) has been described as the first calico printer in America. He served during the Revolution and was captured near Burlington, New..... Read More about A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson: Including...
![3731709] A Princess of The Stage. Nataly von Eschstruth, 1860–1939, pen name of Nataly von...](/pictures/thumb/3731709_1.jpg?v=1677027794)
Translated into English by Elise L. Lathrop. An unrecorded American dime novel edition of this tragic-comedic tale by Nataly von Eschstruth (1860-1939) involving “a romantic..... Read More about A Princess of The Stage
![3733151] Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the...](/pictures/thumb/3733151_1.jpg?v=1676318869)
News photo of Democratic U.S. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and later the first female American ambassador. A...... Read More about Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the fourth...
![3732637] King Log and Lady Lea. Alyse Gregory](/pictures/thumb/3732637_1.jpg?v=1678223406)
First edition, first impression. The second novel by this American-British suffragist and author. Scarce. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1929. 305, [1], [vi]pp. Octavo. Publisher’s..... Read More about King Log and Lady Lea
First edition, firs printing. Volume III of the Yale Edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten..... Read More about Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces [1913-1927]. (Signed and inscribed by Carl Van Vechten
First American edition of this two-volume tale by the English author Charlotte M. Yonge that chronicles the activities, and the extensive travels, of the Dynevor..... Read More about Dynevor Terrace: or, The Clue of Life
![3732213] She Shall Have Music. Alyse Gregory](/pictures/thumb/3732213_1.jpg?v=1663884348)
An obscure 1920s American novel written by this suffragette who married Llewelyn Powys. Gregory was also an editor of The Dial magazine. Her first novel..... Read More about She Shall Have Music
![3732166] Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black. Cookie Mueller](/pictures/thumb/3732166_1.jpg?v=1663884345)
First edition, first printing. A collection of stories published one year after the author’s death. Cookie Mueller starred in John Waters’s films, Pink Flamingoes and..... Read More about Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
![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
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)
First edition of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s autobiography, an “account of her life as one of the leading thinkers and activists of American feminism [and] an..... 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...
![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
![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
![3730723] Double Darling and the Dream Spinner. Candace Wheeler, 1827–1923](/pictures/thumb/3730723_1.jpg?v=1632404224)
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
![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
![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
