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
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.
A Flying Trip Around the World ... In Seven Stages.
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
Mrs. Barney’s Letter, To Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, in reply to one from him, through his Private Secretary, rejecting her application to him, in favour of her husband [caption title].
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...
Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself.
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
Meditations on Votes for Women.
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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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
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
Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems.
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
Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna.
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
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[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
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Relève Into Maquis. [Releve Into Maquis].
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
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
Mattie G. Allison, Evangelist. [caption title of photograph; offered with a second photograph of another woman preacher]
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...
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
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
The Life of a Hindu Woman and the Biography of Libbie Cilley Griffin.
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
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
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
[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...
Annual Catalogue of the Opheleton Female Seminary. Easton, Northampton County, Pa. For the Years 1854-5.
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...
Circular and Catalogue of the Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, Pa. For the year ending Sept. 29th, 1852.
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....
A Lecture on Popular Education, delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, at Annapolis, on Wednesday Evening, March 2, 1853, by H. Winchester, A.M., President of the Frederick Female Seminary.
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...
Fifth Annual Circular and Catalogue of the Frederick Female Seminary, for the Year ending July 11, 1850.
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...
A Nickel and A Prayer.
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
New York. A Story of the Titan City, Adventure, Heart-Throbs and Romance. [Jazz Age Romance “Based on the Motion Picture Story”]
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...