Woman's Work Among the Lowly.
[Philanthropy]. Bennett, Mrs. S. R. I. Woman’s Work Among the Lowly. Memorial Volume of the First Forty Years of the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless. New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1880.
8vo.; contemporary inscription on the front endpaper; four black and white illustrations with original tissue guard overlaid; dark green cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt; extremities lightly bumped; else fine.
Second edition; originally published in 1877. Founded in New York in 1834 and led by Rev. J.R. McDowell--a Princeton graduate of theology who began his career as “an agent for Sabbath schools and tracts” in Rhode Island before turning his attention toward the rescue of destitute women—the American Guardian Society (AGS) devoted its efforts to fighting against “the great metropolis [of] hidden moral leprosy, an unseen desolation, affecting the well-being of thousands, blighting character and hope, and blotting out all that was once lovely and of good report.” The Third Church in New York, located on the corner of Houston and Thompson Streets, held the first meetings of the Society; the Society published The Advocate and Family Guardian, a periodical that publicized “the interests of their work, and their special organ with the public.”
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