Title: Roddy's Ideal.
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. 1876. - Octavo, 7 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Reddish brown cloth titled in gilt with decorations in black on the front cover and the spine. The covers are rubbed with wear to the corners and head & tail of the spine. 293 & [3] pages, illustrated with a full-page frontispiece. The front hinge is starting to split at the top. Several signatures (i.e. group of pages) are lightly pulled. Good.
First edition.
An opponent of the woman's suffrage movement, the American author and poet Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1917) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She moved to Worcester, Massachusetts where she studied at the Oread Institute during the Civil War. She returned to Savannah after the war, spending her time there and in New York State. She began writing children's books and travel articles after marrying newspaper editor Rossiter Johnson. Both Helen and her husband Rossiter were opposed to women's suffrage and active in the anti-suffrage movement. She edited the "American Woman's Journal", founded the Meridian Club and authored a pamphlet entitled "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot" and "Woman and the Republic" in opposition to the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Good .
Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; HELEN KENDRICK JOHNSON; RODDY'S IDEAL; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; FRONTISPIECE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; ANTI-SUFFRAGE AUTHOR; WOMAN AUTHOR.
- Book number: 97121
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