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 and rather unhinged tale about a wealthy New Yorker and her ill-fated lover, mixing American expansionism, anti-Catholic undertones, and a deadly, sickle-armed virgin—inspired by one of Narciso López’s early expeditions to Cuba to seize the island from Spain and, as many Southerners hoped, incorporate it into the U.S......
An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.
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First edition, later printing. Inscribed by Jewett in pencil on the flyleaf: “A Red Cover for Mr. Emerson from his friend the writer.” REFERENCE: BAL 10914.
First edition of the second work on female employment by Kentucky suffragette and pathbreaking researcher Virginia Penny. This is the second work on the subject by Penny (1836–1913), a women’s rights activist and representative to the American Equal Rights Association, preceded by her Employments of Women (Boston, 1863). Penny would.....
A remarkably well-preserved example of the first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (1792–1886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of women’s rights by demonstrating what.....
A scarce cookbook published by the Springfield, Vermont chapter of an international women’s philanthropical association, here with numerous manuscript additions. All of the printed recipes are credited to women in the community. Among the many recipes in manuscript is a “chocolate sponge” for which one had to “Beat 4 eggs.....
A delightful unpublished manuscript of illustrated children's poetry by a noted Florida woman artist and arts-organizer centering on “what-you-may-call-ems”—fantastical creatures with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 by.....
First edition of this address by pathbreaking women’s educator and mapmaker Emma Willard urging the establishment of a female seminary in Greece in the wake of its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Emma Willard (née Hart, 1787–1870) was born in Berlin, Connecticut, where she began teaching as a teenager. In.....
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.....