Woman's Rights Almanac for 1858.
The Woman's Rights Almanac for 1858. Containing Facts, Statistics, Arguments, Records of Progress, and Proofs of the Need of It. Worcester, Mass: Z. Baker & Co. Boston: R. F. Walcutt. [1857].
12mo; 36pp; very light browning to cover, disbound.
First and Only Edition. Anonymously edited by Lucy Stone and T. W. Higginson, there were no other such almanacs. This contains a history of women, with emphasis on the United States and the situation in 1857, comparative statistics of male and female wages in cotton mills and other factories, as well as schoolteachers, a reprint of the passionate call for the seventh National Woman's Rights Convention which took place in 1856, a testimonial to the astronomer Maria Mitchell, and notes and anecdotes on women and women's rights at the bottom of each calendar page. The last page is a prospectus for The Woman's Advocate and an advertisement for the Concord School of Philosophy. Note: The statistics were compiled with much labor expressively for this Almanac. They are necessarily defective in several obvious respects. For instance, it is not designated, in most cases, whether the compensation is with or without board. But as the point of interest here is the comparative wages, this is less important. The wages of female teachers averaged less then one half those of males. And, although the wages of women were not increasing, the proportion of females employed was constantly increasing. The average male wages from 1854 to 1855 was $41.45; average female wages from 1854-1855 wer just $17.29. BAL 8240 (Higginson). Franklin, p. 26. Kirchmar 2154.
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