Emancypacya kobiet.
EARLY POLISH TREATISE ON WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION
[Luxemburg, Rosa] Nossig, Felicya. [cover title:] Emancypacya kobiet. [Krakow,W. Teodorcuk for the editors of Prawo Ludu, Naprzód, and Kolejarz], 1903.
12mo, pp. 36; well preserved in the original red printed wrappers; a little faded; from the library of the eminent Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg) intellectual family Dunin-Wasowicz, with their lavender stamp on front wrapper and at the beginning of the text.
Very rare and beautiful first edition of this early Polish treatise on women’s emancipation, written by a comrade of Rosa Luxemburg and published as number 7 in the third year of the series of pamphlets Latarnia, a publication of the PPSD, the Galician-Silesian branch of the Polish Social Democratic Party.
Felicya Nossig (1855-1939), the founder of one the earliest Polish women’s groups, contributed to the theoretical periodical of the German Social Democratic Party, Die neue Zeit, and wrote on emancipation. In 1900 she and Rosa Luxemburg were the only women representatives of the Polish Social Democratic delegation at an international Socialist congress.
The cover shows a lantern above a smoky industrial skyline within an art-nouveau framework. Latarnia was a series of political pamphlets published in the slightly more tolerant Austrian-occupied part of Poland. The contents ranged from a new edition of the Communist Manifesto, over the eight-hour day to one issue dedicated to the proletarian poet Marya Konopnicka.
Żanna Kormanowa, Materiały do bibliografii druków socjalistycznych p. 177; the only other copy we were able to locate is in the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
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