It’s Up To the Women (trade and deluxe issues).
Roosevelt, Eleanor. It’s Up To the Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1933].
8vo.; title page printed in black and blue; frontispiece of Eleanor Roosevelt with tissue overlay; blue cloth stamped in gilt and gray; t.e.g.; blue, gray, white, and gold dust-jacket, darkened, worn at edges, closed tear at mid spine, remainder stamp on front; blue slipcase with printed paper label, darkened at edges.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor. It’s Up To the Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1933].
8vo.; frontispiece of Eleanor Roosevelt with tissue overlay; inner hinge tender; gray cloth stamped in green and black, some darkening and fraying to spine.
First edition, deluxe issue, 250 numbered copies signed by the author; together with the first edition, trade issue. The trade issue is inscribed to her daughter, who was then 27 years old: “Anna darling, this was nearly dedicated to you then I decided it wasn’t good enough but it goes to you with lots of love from Mother October 1933. This book, usually thought of as Eleanor’s first (When You Grow Up seems to have slipped through the bibliographical cracks), is a compendium of morale-boosting tips, with chapters such as “Women and the Vote,” “Women and the N.R.A.,” and “When to Economize Wisely With Children,” and includes a long section on family nutrition, with a week’s worth of recipes for healthy meals. (Sunday dinner is “Liver in Gravy, Baked Potatoes-Scalloped Onions, Whole Wheat Bread-butter, Creamy Rice Pudding, Milk for Children,” p. 79).
The relationship between Eleanor and Anna, her oldest child and only daughter, was fraught with tension and self-recriminations, which frequently made communication difficult. Their push and pull for FDR’s affections caused much strife, especially after his death, when Eleanor interpreted Anna’s knowledge of her father’s extramarital affair as support of Lucy Mercer Rutherford. Eleanor found this almost unforgivable, since Rutherford had come close to causing the end of her marriage to FDR in 1918. In the final decades of Eleanor’s life, however, she and Anna mended relations, and, in the wake of their individual successes (Anna finally achieved marital happiness with Dr. James Halstead, her third husband; Eleanor was an internationally beloved political figure) the relationship between them matured into one of mutual respect and love.
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