New York: Privately Printed, 1873.
Price:
$3,500.00
About the item
24pp. 4to. Contemporary morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, minor bumps at the corners. Washed and recased.
Item #377929
Wilbour's complex and nuanced essay, delivered as the keynote address at the first annual convention of the Association of the Advancement of Woman, presents a radical thought wrapped in what would appear at first to be a somewhat conservative tone. Arguing against Utopian free love, divorce, and other societal ills, she asserts the idea of home as central to the woman's sphere. However her doing so is in actuality an argument for married woman's property rights, suggesting that the wife should own the marital home, legally and inalienably, so that it is beyond the reach of her husband's debts, his creditors, his drinking, or his speculation.
Wilbour (1833-1914), a feminist, Suffragette, writer and speaker, was one of the founders of Sorosis, the first professional women's club in America and one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Women. She was a colleague of Susan B. Anthony and later served on the committee of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible.
Very rare: OCLC locates only a single example (William and Mary).
