Report of the Woman's Rights Meeting.
Report of the Woman's Rights Meeting, at Mercantile Hall, May 27, 1859. Boston: Published by S. Urbino, 1859.
8vo; 32 pp.; lacks original wrappers; light brown mark at top of title; disbound; else very good.
First Edition. A Woman's Rights meeting, the third of the kind in Boston, was held at Mercantile Hall, May 27, 1859. It was called by Caroline M. Severance and Caroline H. Dall. Mrs. Severance presided and made the address of welcome. Harriet K. Hunt spoke on "Woman: 1st, Restricted in Education; 2nd, Deprived of Suffrage; 3rd, Taxed without Representation.” Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Rev. John T. Sargent, Rev. Charles G. Ames and Wendell Phillips were the speakers. Mrs. Dall made an able report showing what had been the gain to the movement since 1855 in Europe as well as in America.
"Judging from the number in attendance, and the interest manifested at the convention, yesterday, there is evidence of a strong tide of feminine sentiment in favor of a general revolution in governmental affairs," reported the Boston Morning Post. Caroline M. Severance was president of this meeting; Caroline H. Dall was the principal organizer and took the largest part. There are printed speeches by Severance, James Freeman Clarke, Dall, Rev. J. T. Sargent, C. G. Ames, and Wendell Phillips. Dall's address considers progress in Great Britain and gives statistics on how women are employed there; John Stuart Mill and his late wife are mentioned, as well as Florence Nightingale, Mary Carpenter and others. There is an account of the doings of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Science. Dall follows this by an American census of the same sort. Tennyson's poem "The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink / together." is included, as is a long, original poem by Mrs. Nowell which begins "Not long ago, a woman..." OCLC: 6 copies. Not found in Kirchmar or Franklin.
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