Studies in the Psychology of Woman.
[Stanton, Elizabeth Cady]. [Ransson, Laura Mohr]. Studies in the Psychology of Woman by Laura Marholm. Translated by Georgia A. Etchison. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899.
8vo; blue cloth; lacking spine; edges worn; hinges starting. Housed in custom clamshell box.
First American edition. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s copy, signed in ink by her and dated June 1899 with her address 250 W. 94th on the front flyleaf; underlinings and notations by her throughout as follows: p. 118, underlining and marginal line; pp/ 120-121, “1l” and marginal lines on both pages; pp. 122-123, “2.” and marginal lines; p. 129, marginal lines; p. 165, “x” in margin and text underlined; p. 183, under headings, “America” and “England” Mrs. Stanton has written the names of suffrage leaders, of the 10 Americans written only one is unmarried (Miss Anthony), of the 8 English written only one is unmarried (Miss Becker); pp. 184-185, marginal line and the note, “a capital comment on the author herself, who lets us know on 165 that she 'has had & possessed.'”; p. 190, marginal note, “she might thank god; if an emancipation movement came her way!”; p. 194, underlining in text and marginal note, “all the philanthropic work in England and America is a marked feature of life far more than in Catholic lands”; p. 230, marginal lines; p. 279, marginal lines; p. 282, text underlining and marginal note, “see 283 English German Norwegian referring to author to sources of knowledge that says 'I must first become a human being before I can be a woman; -... Stuart Mill, Bebel and Ibsen.' “; p. 283, underlining and marginal note, “see 282” about women forgetting her nature and breaking into the domains of man, teaching that come from the U.S. and England, according to Marholm; p. 289, marginal lines and “1” and “2”; pp. 302-03, marginal lines; pp. 306-07, marginal lines; p. 315, marginal note, “why is spinning in this century unsexing when it was so womanly in the last?”; pp/ 324-325, marginal lines; rear flyleaf, “Garin - 129.” This copy also belonged to Mrs. Stanton’s daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, herself an important suffragist, especially in organizing the suffrage movement in New York State, with the stamp, “H.S. Blatch” on the first page of the text in blue ink.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton spent her entire life working for the cause of women’s rights—writing, speaking, demonstrating—doing whatever necessary. From her call for the first meeting to advocate women’s rights (Seneca Falls, 1848) to her denunciation of organized religion for denying female equality, she was steadfast in her crusade. Here, at age 84, just three years before she died, although she could no longer travel and speak in public, she was reading a recent text on women (translated from the German), gathering fresh ammunition for her life’s work.
Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was the younger daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and an important leader in the “second generation of suffragists.” When she was called back by her mother and Miss Anthony to assist with their monumental History Of Woman Suffrage, she pointed out to them they had neglected an account of Lucy Stone’s rival group, the American Woman Suffrage Association. They gave her the task of rectifying the omission, which she did in Volume II, paving the way for the reconciliation and merger of the two organizations nine years later. In 1907, she launched a campaign in New York for woman suffrage, using more aggressive methods she had witnessed in England. As her mother’s boldness had shocked cautious feminists of her day, her daughter’s militancy likewise upset more timid colleagues. But it brought new life to the movement at a critical time.
Laura Mohn Hansson (1854-1928) wrote under the pseudonym of Laura (and Leonard) Marholm. Influenced by physiological determinism and the psychology of sex, she was an active participant in the intellectual currents of the time, receiving considerable atten
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