Representative Men: Seven Lectures.
EMERSON, R. W. REPRESENTATIVE MEN: SEVEN LECTURES. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850. First edition, first printing. 285 pp. 12mo., publisher's brown cloth binding: gilt-stamped title and author's name on spine, blindstamped decoration on sides, pale yellow endpapers. Ink signature of Lucy Stone, the American suffragist and abolitionist, on ffep. Cloth binding is clean, but spine shows some wear and the front joint is weak. Text leaves are clean, but endpapers and flyleaves show light foxing. Very good overall. (BAL 5219, Myerson A22.1.a)
LUCY STONE'S COPY; SIGNED BY HER.
In 1850, the year Representative Men was published, Lucy Stone led in calling the first National Women's Rights Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts. Among the participants were pioneering women's rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abby Kelley, Lucretia Mott, and noted reformers such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Stephen S. Foster. Stone had asked Emerson to address the convention, which he was unable to do because of a prior commitment; but he did sign the "Declaration of Principles" put forth by the convention. (DAB IX, NAW III).
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