Reformed Woman, The; or, passages from the life of Mrs. Anna Coolley.
Rivers, Edith. The Reformed Woman; or, passages from the life of Mrs. Anna Cooley. With brief sketches of her mission and a plea for the fallen. Boston: 1859.
8vo.; spine cocked; brown cloth; light wear to extremities.
First edition of a biography of an unfortunate woman who rose above her trials to start her own rescue mission in Boston, in defiance of what the author calls in her introduction “the common sentiment of society”: “Man…descend into the depths of vice, and yet, by the force of will and divine grace, return to virtue, obtain pardon both from God and man, and every door of influence and society be open before him; but woman when she falls, ‘Falls like Lucifer, never to rise again!’”
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