ARMFIELD, Constance Smedley

The Larger Growth (Mothers and Fathers)

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1911. Sm 8vo (7.7 in, 19.5 cm). xii, 382 pp. Sole edition: Constance Smedley (1876-1941), later Armfield, was a British feminist artist and author of over forty works. Despite severe physical disability, she founded the International Lyceum Clubs for Women Artists and Writers, centers for worldwide cultural exchange that enabled women to compete equally with men. OCLC. ODNB. Publisher's green cloth with yellow lettering and decoration in blind. Jacket cover inserted. Readership: 1914 inscription to front free endpaper. Remarkably well-preserved, tight, and clean. Near fine .

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Book number: 1185

Catalogue: Women

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with a Memoir, Corrected by the Last London Edition

New York, James Miller, 1870. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). [2] [ii], [1-4] 5-139 [1]; [3-433 [1] [2] pp.; frontis, ports. N.d. circa 1870. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1801-61) authored works to challenge the female stereotype. "Political and didactic, these works emphasized the right of a woman to speak and to act, in world affairs as in her private existence." Her moving poem "The Cry of the Children" published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1843 generated public support for child labor reforms. OCLC 903006978. Blain, Feminist Companion. bl uk/collection-items. Full calf with covers framed in triple blind fillet, spine with gilt title in compartment. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Spine lightly chafed, edgewear, title fading, small flowers with trace offset, title page with small chip, some pages faintly toned. Tight and clean collection with memoir. Very good .

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Book number: 1090

Catalogue: Women