Description:
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1915). First Edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), 94 pages. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue on the spine, with blue printed paper label on the upper cover providing author & title.Covers soiled, modest edge wear, foxing throughout (heavy at times), one leaf with corner crease, a good or so copy of an important book.
Alice Duer Miller's gathering of satirical poetry, prose, & a three-page play all related to women's rights & suffrage, much of which was originally published in the New York Tribune. Particularly engaging is the section entitled "Campaign Material" in which Ms. Miller provides tongue-in-cheek reasons for denying suffrage:
"BECAUSE no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote;
Because no women who may vote will attend to her domestic duties;
Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to; ...
Because will form a solid party and outvote men ..."
