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Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834), author, poet and abolitionist, was 18 when her poem "The Slave Ship" won a literary prize and brought her to the attention of antislavery advocate Benjamin Lundy. She wrote for and edited the "Ladies'…

Written by Maria Weston Chapman, this is the second annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Pages 3 to 74 provide a detailed account of circumstances of the famous riots on October 21 at Garrison's anti-slavery rooms.

Lydia Maria Child was a noted abolitionist, women's rights advocate, scholar and popular author. This publication was the first book of the American abolitionist movement, and it is one of the key documents in the movement.

Lydia Maria Child was one of the first American women to make a career from her writing. She completed her first novel at the age of 22. In the Anti-Slavery Catechism, Child has appropriated a format usually reserved for religion, thereby infusing…

Originally published in 1829, this domestic manual, The American Frugal Housewife, contains Child’s household hints, cheap recipes, and budgeting information. It is unique in that she wrote it for lower and middle class women. In her introduction…

Child’s vehement anti-slavery position was greeted with hostility and a boycott of her books. This pamphlet calls for immediate emancipation.

The appendix comprises a bibliographical list of Mrs. Child's writings and Phillips' remarks at her funeral in 1880. This selection of letters emphasized Child's role as an abolitionist.

First edition inscribed by Mary McLeod Bethune. This work features the biographies of seven African-American women who were pioneers in education, financial and social institutions.

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman was a feminist, author and lecturer. In this work Gilman drew on history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology and used an evolutionary perspective to explore women's subordinate status in society in the past and…

This first edition of Anna Gordon’s memorial biography of Frances Willard contains character Sketches and Memorial tributes by: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Mary Livermore, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Rabbi…