James and Lucretia Mott. Life and Letters.
[Mott, Lucretia]. Hallowell, Anna Davis (editor). James and Lucretia Mott. Life and Letters. Edited by Their Granddaughter, Anna Davis Hallowell. With Portraits. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1884.
8vo; frontispiece portrait of James and Lucretia Mott (with tissue-guard) and five other illustrations; paper at front hinge a little split; a small gouge and some markings to front endpapers; one page of publisher’s advertisement; smooth brown cloth gilt-stamped at the spine; t.e.g.; front foretips and upper rear foretip bumped; heel of spine worn with some fraying; mild wear to head of spine and tips; an attractive, sound copy.
First edition. The first complete biography of Lucretia Mott who, with the support of her husband James, pioneered in the major reform movements of the 19th-century — the abolition of slavery, woman suffrage, temperance and free religious thought. While the biography has been superseded, to some degree, by later scholarship, it remains valuable, particularly for the original letters included. Hallowell provides, for instance, the text of Daniel O'Connell and William Howitt’s letters to her grandmother commenting on the exclusion of Lucretia Mott and other women delegates from the 1840 World’s Anti-Slavery Convention, an event which led to the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the formation of the American Women’s Rights Movement. Also printed here are Lucretia Mott’s important Discourse On Woman (1849) and some of her sermons and addresses. Hallowell’s biography arises out of a unique perspective on James and Lucretia Mott, and further renders itself useful and significant with the addition of scarce texts.
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