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.
![Three Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co.]. Arzalea Hunt, Lucy...](/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
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
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...
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
![Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title]. photographer Henry...](/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
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
![Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers]. Associated...](/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
![Relève Into Maquis. [Releve Into Maquis]. Nancy Cunard](/pictures/thumb/3730873_1.jpg?v=1632596706)
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...
Autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter (1892–1971), a nurse and lawyer, and noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
Rare Jazz Age photoplay based on this 1927 Paramount Studios film, written by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner. Gardiner scripted the 1926 film The Great..... Read More about New York. A Story of the Titan City, Adventure, Heart-Throbs and Romance. [Jazz Age Romance...
Interesting letter signed by Evangeline W. Andrews, historian and spouse/collaborator of Yale professor of Colonial American history, Charles M. Andrews, discussing North Carolina and the..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed by Historian Evangeline W. Andrews, discussing North Carolina and the...
Brilliant poster for Rose Coghlan (1851–1932), Gilded Age burlesque player and leading actress, here in a female-to-male cross-dressing role in the romantic play Jocelyn set..... Read More about Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn. [chromolithographic theatrical poster for a burlesque player and leading...
![C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3729892_1.jpg?v=1642968297)
Medium-format tintype studio portrait of a Western woman wearing a kimono and holding a large folding Japanese fan behind her head. Studio props in the..... Read More about C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume
Collection of 13 women’s club yearbooks or program books from Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. The Woman’s Club was organized in 1936 via the consolidation of three earlier..... Read More about “The Woman’s Club of Philipsburg, Pennsylvania Year Book,” 1936–1963; 11 Yearbooks plus 2...
