Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book.
INSCRIBED
[Suffrage] (Paul, Alice, presentation) Armes, Ethel. Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book. Philadelphia:
J.B. Lippincott, 1935.
8vo.; prospectus tipped-in at rear endpaper; blue cloth over boards, stamped in gilt.
First edition. A gift copy, inscribed by Alice Paul on a calling card affixed to the dedication page to
Florence Bayard Hilles: Wishing you a Merry Xmas and the happiest of New Years - with gratitude for
all you have done for us in the year that is gone - Your courage and your leadership have been
magnificent. With Hilles’s ownership signatyre on the half title, date 1935; and signed by author Ethel
Armes on the verso of the title page.
Excellent association between two of the most fiery and outspoken women’s rights advocates of the 20th
century. Alice Paul was a key figure in the vanguard of the women’s suffrage movement of the Teens and
Twenties, a co-founder of the National Women’s Party and a vocal sponsor of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Though not as well known, Florence Hilles (1865-1954) was closely affiliated with Paul, served with her
on the front lines of the suffrage movement, and was, with Paul, among the 17 suffragists jailed in 1917 for
picketing the White House.
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