Constitution and By-laws.
Boston: W.L. Deland, 1877. Original printed wrappers, 10, [2 blanks) pp. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrapper, stitching absent, else Very Good.
The Association for the Advancement of Women was formed in 1873, after a call for a "Women's Congress" by Sorosis, the first professional women's club in the United States. Sorosis initiated the Congress in order for representative women of the country to address "important questions that affect our woman's life." The Congress, held on October 15 1873, organized itself into the Association for the Advancement of Women. It adopted its Constitution, its objective being to improve the "intellectual, moral and physical conditions" of women. Its first president, Mary A. Livermore, was a well-known activist, speaker, and editor of the women's rights periodical "The Agitator." Other prominent members of this organization included Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy at Vassar College and an early president of the Association; Julia Ward Howe, well-known women's rights activist; and Kate Newell Doggett, a reformer and delegate of the National Women's Suffrage Association. [Howe: HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN. 1873-1893.]
OCLC records, in addition to this one, an 1876 printing of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association for the Advancement of Woman (rather than 'Women'), located only at the University of California Riverside (as of May 2013). OCLC 35128560 [3- Princeton, OH Hist. Soc., Hayes Pres. Ctr] [as of May 2013].
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