Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement.
Catt, Carrie Chapman and Nettie Rogers Shuler. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
8vo.; occasional light underlining throughout; blue cloth, stamped in white; hinges tender; covers lightly used.
First edition; number of copies unknown. A signed copy of Catt’s history of the campaign for the enfranchisement of women in the U.S., a campaign that would not have succeeded without Catt’s considerable energy and organizational skills; with her full signature, “Carrie Chapman Catt,” extending diagonally across the bottom of the front endpaper.
In Woman Suffrage and Politics, Catt explains her 1916 plan to attain suffrage for women across the nation, and details the ups and downs of the campaign from an eye-witness perspective. Woman Suffrage and Politics is regarded as one of the two most important histories of the early women’s movement, sharing the limelight with Susan B. Anthony’s multi-volume History of Woman Suffrage. Perhaps because most copies were purchased primarily by political activists rather than by genteel collectors, neither work shows up often on the open market; they are rarely seen in good or better condition.
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