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Signed as Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), was a minister, lecturer and suffragist, who was recruited by Susan B. Anthony to the suffrage cause.

Original cabinet photograph of noted suffrage and abolitionist leader, Lucretia Mott. On the back is written, "Truth for authority, not authority for truth." Mott was a Quaker minister, pioneer in the women's rights movement, abolitionist, and…

First and only Edition of this anti-slavery book for children. It is mostly prose sketches and anecdotes, with some poetry written by women. The work emphasizes tolerance, equality and friendship between the black and white races, assistance to…

Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman was the daughter of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and wife of John Crawford Wyman. This first edition contains first-hand biographical profiles of active members of the anti-slavery movement.

Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin] was a British teacher and writer. Her path-breaking feminist manifesto argued for the spiritual and rational equality of women and was extremely influential in years to come, on both sides of the Atlantic. She argued that…

This is an argument for more women preachers. Willard served as secretary of the American Methodist Ladies Centenary Association, and in 1887 was one of the first women elected as a delegate to the Methodist General Conference.

Frances Willard transformed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union into a strong advocate of woman suffrage and brought the group into the political arena, actively campaigning for candidates across the nation. This work includes the biographies of…

Phillis Wheatley is considered the first black woman poet in America. This first edition is illustrated and includes the Memorial by Margaretta Matilda Odell, a descendant of the Wheatley family.