An early issue of this scarce literary periodical featuring writing by Lowell’s female textile workers, many of whom went on to become authors, educators, and suffragist or labor organizers. This February, 1841 issue of The Lowell Offering includes eighteen pieces, including “The Sea of Genius” (a young writer’s conversation with.....
The official report on the first of two trials of Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Massachusetts Borgia,” who murdered her landlord and seven of her own family members, with a brazen letter from the murderer herself to Massachusetts Justice Waldbridge A. Field, requesting a private meeting. After the death of her.....
A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head.....
A delightful unpublished manuscript of illustrated children's poetry by a noted Florida woman artist and arts-organizer centering on “what-you-may-call-ems”—fantastical creatures with names like the Wip-an-gee, Tottle-Ott, Go-Go Bird, Mug-Wumpus, and so forth. Each page of this book is devoted to one creature and features a short, whimsical poem followed.....
Emma Willard’s rebuttal of rival text book author Marcius Willson in a debate that articulated core questions of historiography and text-book compilation at the height of the common school era. This counter-thrust, an entry in the two-year pamphlet battle between pioneering female educator and mapmaker Emma Willard and her young.....
First abridged edition of the first historical atlas of the United States by pioneering educator Emma Willard, who, in promoting the power of visual learning, became the country’s first female map maker. The first map in this volume, designated the “Introductory Map,” presents the “Locations and Wanderings of the Aboriginal.....