![3732474] Asp of the Age. [Limited Edition]. Merle Hoyleman](/images/noimage-req.png)
Asp of the Age. [Limited Edition]
One of 326 copies printed from the author’s manuscript. “The introduction by George Marion O’Donnell, dated 1941, was meant to introduce Mere’s first book, which..... Read More about Asp of the Age. [Limited Edition
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Women's History & Women Writers
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Dynevor Terrace: or, The Clue of Life.
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)
She Shall Have Music.
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)
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.
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)
[The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional Ephemera].
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)
A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women.
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
A Marsh Island. [First Gay American Novel]
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)
Golden Pomegranates of Eden.
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)
Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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)
1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by her sister, Helen Osgood Kingman.
“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)
This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed)
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 Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co.].
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)
Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories.
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)
Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title]
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)
Double Darling and the Dream Spinner.
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)
Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems.
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)
[Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers].
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)
England’s Girls and England’s Future.
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
![3730818] River Rhymes and Rhymes Betimes. Maud Emett Cutler](/pictures/thumb/3730818_1.jpg?v=1628131413)
River Rhymes and Rhymes Betimes.
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)
Poems.
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)
The Life of a Hindu Woman and the Biography of Libbie Cilley Griffin. (Signed)
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)
Following the Guidon.
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)
Church Street. Stories of American Village Life.
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)
[Autograph Note Signed by Anne-Marie du Boccage, 18th-Century French Writer, Poet, Playwright, and Saloniste].
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...
![3730339] A Nickel and A Prayer. Jane Edna Hunter](/pictures/thumb/3730339_1.jpg?v=1617841449)
A Nickel and A Prayer.
Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer