Author: WILLARD, Frances E.
Title: Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman
Description: Chicago, H.J. Smith & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original dark green cloth with black, gold and silver pictorial stamping and silver lettering. xvi, 698pp, 6pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear; contemporary ownership signature on inner flyleaf. Tight, attractive first edition of this important memoir by the important educator and reformer (1839-98) who served as president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union (1879-98) and the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1891-98); she was also first president of the National Council of Women (1888-90). .

Keywords: Americana Biography


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