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MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. A GENERAL, POLITICAL, LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY FROM 1774 TO 1881.
by ROBINSON, Harriet H
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
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12mo, original cloth with decorative floral design, spine sunned a little, decorative endpapers, [xii], (7)-265pp. The free front endpaper is ink inscribed "Compliments of Harriet H. Robinson Feb. 1883." There are other provenance markings from the Berkeley Massachusetts Public Library, which apparently received the book as a gift from Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Hon. Roger Wolcott. KRICHMAR 1944. First Edition. A bright, clean very good copy now Mylar protected & housed in a custom slipcase. Very uncommon signed with a noted provenance. "In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association, becoming the recording secretary with her daughter Hattie as President (to Harriet's dismay; she had hoped to fill the position). It was during this time that Robinson would write her acclaimed book Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement (1881), a largely personal account of the struggle for woman suffrage which largely ignored any of Lucy Stone's contributions. [Stone had failed to mention Robinson's name in her review of an 1878 suffrage event, even though Robinson had paid Stone's $200 travel expenses—approximately $5000 today.] Still holding a grudge, Harriet would leave the NWSA of Massachusetts when in 1890 it merged with the local AWSA branch to create the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Robinson entered the suffrage movement at a contentious time and was ultimately caught up in the politics of the time, vacillating between the two major organizations fighting for the vote. Though an efficient and passionate organizer and planner, Harriet left her mark on history with her pen. She wrote an influential history of the woman suffrage movement in Massachusetts, and called upon her early experiences in the mills of Lowell to show the determination of women to get what they are owed. For Robinson and her compatriots, the right to vote and equal citizenship were long overdue" (Lowell, National Park Service).
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- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 209
- Title
- MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. A GENERAL, POLITICAL, LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY FROM 1774 TO 1881.
- Author
- ROBINSON, Harriet H
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1881
- Pages
- 265pp
- Size
- 12mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- women's studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Women's studies;
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