What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures with LETTER: Autographed letter signed, to an unnamed correspondent.
Livermore, Mary A[shton]. What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures
12mo, 208 pp.; + 4pp ads; light dampstaining to outer edge of first 23 pages; light green gilt-stamped cloth; touch of rubbing to front hinge and tips; very good—despite the mild dampstaining the covers are fresh and attractive.
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Autograph Letter Signed. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1883. Medina, NY, January 14, 1876. To an unnamed correspondent.
Single sheet, 8 x 5”; written on both sides, signed “Mary A. Livermore”; folded in thirds to fit envelope; some age-toning; else fine.
Mrs. Livermore writes concerning a date for a lecture in Lancaster (Pennsylvania?) the following month.
First edition. Mary Livermore (1820-1905), lecturer, author and suffragist, came to prominence through her extraordinary work as head of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Midwest. She was the founding president of the Illinois Suffrage Association and with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe a co-founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869) and its first president. A popular lecturer, Livermore toured the Lyceum circuit for some twenty years, her most popular piece a talk entitled “What Shall We Do with Our Daughters” in which she set out the just cause of suffrage and women’s rights. As she delivered this talk over 800 times, the lecture obviously has broad appeal and perhaps was the lecture for which she was engaged in Lancaster.
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