Mother of Clubs, The: Caroline M. Seymour Severance An Estimate and Appreciation.
Inscribed, With A Holograph Poem,
By “The Mother Of Clubs”
[Severance, Caroline M. Seymour]. Ruddy, Ella Giles, editor. The Mother of Clubs: Caroline M. Seymour Severance An Estimate and Appreciation. Los Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1906.
8vo.; frontispiece photograph of Severance; original tissue guard; other photographs (including one of Severance with Susan B. Anthony) throughout; green cloth, stamped in gilt; edge of front cover with tiny dampstain; else a pretty and fresh copy.
First edition of this tribute to Caroline M. Seymour Severance, founder and president of the first women’s club in America: the New England Woman’s Club of Boston; an anthology, printing tributes to “Madame Severence” (as she was known) from her friends and admirers, who included Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., among others. A very uncommon title, our copy inscribed by Severance on the front endpaper: ‘Not enjoyment, & not sorrow / Is our destined end, or way,–/ But, to live that each tomorrow / Find us further, than today!’ / C.M.S. Severance ‘El Nido:’ 806 W. Adams St. Los Angeles. Jan’y 1908. Severance devotes an entire chapter to “El Nido,” her beloved “Home Nest” in Los Angeles.
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