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1890 Book: Samantha Among The Brethern by Josiah Allen's Wife - Marietta Holley.    

Ms Holley used her pen-name to write during a period where many women used other names for their written works.  She wrote fictional stories with a feminist punch!

Hardcover  - the binding of the covers is loose but attached - some glue would be appropriate

Red with gold gilding

8 x 6 1/2 x  1 1/2 inches

Inside name:  Carrie A. Babbitt's Book

Copyright 1890 by Funk & Wagnalls Stationers' Hall, London, Eng.

437 pgs, illustrated

$15 plus shipping

A book that just begs for a cup of coffee (or tea) and a casual sit down and relax moment.  The Kyoto Costume Institute, Fashion - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century is a treasure trove of amazing photographs showing not only costume changes over the decades but also exquisite detail.  Any student of vintage clothing will love this book!  

Offered here at $25.00 plus shipping.

 Hoorah For The Bra, Cheree Berry

Not quite vintage... but totally fun and informative! This is a popup book! Just love everything about it right down to the bra strap closure. $15 +shipping

1891 and 2024: The Womens' Vote

Woman Suffrage Leaflet Published Monthly at the Office of the Woman's Journal, Boston Mass.

"Women and The State" is the title of the speech given by Hon. George F Hoar at a convention in Amherst Mass on Sept 24, 1891.

The paragraph that follows seems to capture the feeling today as more and more American female citizens are running for public office.

Now the debate between the advocates of woman suffrage and its opponents is, to my mind, but a contest between two theories of the function of the State.  If the State is to do nothing or to do little but to raise and discipline armies, to build jails and to establish police courts, the less woman has to do with it the better for her, and the better for the State, except, as I shall show presently, that even here the State must largely depend upon her for the instrumentalities which are to diminish the evil of war and less its horrors.   If on the other hand, it is so to use its forces as to put an end to these things; if education, justice, science, art, charity, the promotion of commerce and manufacture, the healing of diseases, the promoting everywhere increased reverence for the individual soul, be a function to which its great forces are to be devoted in the future, then it is indispensable that woman should have in its management her full and equal share.

VOTE - like your country depends on it!  True in 1890s and ever so true in 2024!