Author: (ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted
Title: The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years. A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman
Description: Indianapolis & Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until 1908. Original green cloth with a gilt portrait on the front covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Anthony and other plates and facsimiles. Each volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on 14 December 1898 by this principal leader of the woman suffrage movement in the United States on the front endpapers to Mrs. Sarah Anthony Burtis, Susan B. Anthony's cousin and childhood teacher, who assumed the post of acting secretary at the Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848. Each inscription is dated 14 December 1898 in Rochester, N.Y. Volume I: “To my teacher at Battenville,/Washington County N.Y. in the school-room/of the new brick house -- the winter of 1836/and to my father’s cousin Daniel/Anthony’s daughter -- Sarah Anthony Burtis --/as well as to one of the secretaries of the first/Woman’s Rights’ Conventions held in Rochester Aug. 2, 1848/on her 88th birthday December 14 - 1898. With the/many memories of the olden days – from/Susan B. Anthony/Rochester – NY/Dec. 14. 1898.” Volume II: “To my cousin & early teacher/Sarah Anthony Burtis--/with the love & pleasant memories of/Susan B. Anthony/Rochester N. Y./Dec. 14. 1898.” Burtis is mentioned three times in Harper's book, including this: “On December 23 [1896] she [SBA] went to Niagara Falls with her stenographer to secure reminiscences from her cousin, Sarah Anthony Burtis, aged eighty-six, who was a teacher in the home school at Battenvile over sixty years before” (Harper, LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, page 896). Excellent association. Hinges rather clumsily repaired with small loss of paper at gutter of the second volume, not affecting the inscription; ink a bit light but very clear. Covers rubbed and somewhat soiled. Overall about Very Good In a 1903 letter to Dodd Mead & Co. Harper detailed the unsatisfactory arrangement she and Anthony had with Bowen-Merrill. According to her there were only 225 bound copies and 858 unbound sets of sheets of the first edition. "As Miss Anthony is not likely to live very long, being over 83 and very feeble, she and I both thought it would be better for me to purchase her rights in the book, and I have done so, and am now sole owner of it.

Keywords: Signed, Women's Suffrage, Suffragettes, Inscribed, Susan B. Anthony, Biography, Feminist Literature, Women's Rights, History, Americana, Women's Liberation Signed Women's Rights Women's Suffrage Feminism


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