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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman and Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman in Three Volumes. Three Volumes.
Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931) collaborated with Susan B. Anthony on an account of her life and the suffrage movement. Harper moved into Anthony’s New York home to compile these volumes.
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
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.
Anti-Slavery Catechism
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…
The American Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy
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…
The Right Way and the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere...
Child’s vehement anti-slavery position was greeted with hostility and a boycott of her books. This pamphlet calls for immediate emancipation.
Letters of Child, Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier Appendix by Wendell Phillips
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.
Free Religion. Report of Addresses at a Meeting Held in Boston, May 30, 1867, To Consider the Conditions, Wants, and Prospects of Free Religion in America. Together with the Constitution of the Free Religious Association There Organized
This report prints her address in full, as well as prints remarks by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Owen, Oliver Johnson, Francis Abbot, et al.
Lucretia Mott [Signed and Inscribed Cabinet Photograph]
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…
Life and Letters
This first edition of Life and Letters, edited by their granddaughter Anna Davis Hallowell, is the first complete biography of Lucretia Mott, who was a pioneer in the reform movements of the 19th-century including abolition, suffrage, and temperance.…