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Speech of Mrs. A.J. George before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate 1913 [cover title]. Anti-Woman Suffrage, A. J. George, i e. Thomas RUSSELL?

Speech of Mrs. A.J. George before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate 1913 [cover title].

[Philadelphia]: Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1913. Mrs. A.J. George of Brookline, Massachusetts argues against woman suffrage on the grounds that the majority of women do not wish to vote and that enfranchise them will upset traditional gender roles. An amusing account in Woman's Journal of Mrs. George's testimony... Read More

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Archive of 13 Autograph Letters Signed ("Gertrude Atherton" or "G.A."), to Harper Brother’s editor James MacArthur, Gertrude Atherton.

Archive of 13 Autograph Letters Signed ("Gertrude Atherton" or "G.A."), to Harper Brother’s editor James MacArthur,

London, Munich, New York, and Mt. Tamalpais [CA]: 1905-1907. An archive of letters from Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) to James MacArthur of Harper Brothers, publisher of Atherton’s Rulers of Kings (1904); The Travelling Thirds (1905); The Bell in the Fog (1905); Ancestors (1907); and California: An Intimate History (1914). The letters... Read More

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La bonne petite souris , conte, par Madame D***; suivi des proverbes français. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville Aulnoy, baronne d’.

La bonne petite souris , conte, par Madame D***; suivi des proverbes français.

Troyes: Ve. André, imprim.-libraire et fabricant de papier, Grand'rue, “Imprimée cette annee” [between 1808 and 1832, according to the BN]. Scarce regional printing (CLC locates only the BN copy) of this ittle “conte de fée” from the pen of the author (1650-1705) who coined the very phrase which now describes... Read More

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Four Manuscript Poems. Mary S. Austin.

Four Manuscript Poems.

N.p. [American]: ca. 1780s? A somewhat bleak collection of four sacred poems, accomplished in a neat manuscript hand with a lovely calligraphic title, and signed by Mary S. Austin. The titles include "On the Death of Miss Hamilton By a Lady of Hudson," "A. Hymm," "Maria," and "Mortality." Read More

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ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Margaret Culkin Banning.

ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of... Read More

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Woman, A Poem. Eaton Stannard Barrett.

Woman, A Poem.

London: for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1818. First edition thus. Barrett (1786-1820) first published a poem entitled ' Woman' in 1810; in this version of 1818 ' I determined to rewrite the poem ... I have found so much omission, alteration, and new matter necessary, that... Read More

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Photograph of oil painting of the great financier and presidential advisor, inscribed on the mount, “To Isabel Leighton with highest regard / BM Baruch 1931”. Bernard Baruch.

Inscribed Picture of Bernard Baruch

Photograph of oil painting of the great financier and presidential advisor, inscribed on the mount, “To Isabel Leighton with highest...

1931. Inscribed Picture of Bernard Baruch. Isabel Leighton (Mrs. Frederick A., later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker), actress, writer, translator, playwright, radio personality, foreign correspondent, and editor of the best-selling The Aspirin Age, was a very close friend of Baruch over many decades until his death. Read More

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