Both first editions. In these Antebellum moral tales concerning young women, one warns of the dangers of falling for men who are only “pretended” friends, while the other celebrates “the happiness that encircles virtue--and the misery that surrounds vice.” Miss Eliza Rossell tells of a young woman driven by “SELF-WILL”.....
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.....
First edition of the second anthology of essays and narratives selected by the Rochester Ladies’ Antislavery Society, exploring the doctrine of a common brotherhood where “the chains of the Slave shall be broken, and the country redeemed from the sin and curse of Slavery.” Edited by Julia Griffiths, a British.....
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A delightful unpublished manuscript of illustrated children's poetry by a noted Florida woman artist and arts-organizer centering on “what-you-may-call-ems”—fantastical creatures with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.....
The last self-published printing of Sojourner Truth’s autobiographical texts, published just two years before her death and reflecting the enduring interest in her life and work. This second Battle Creek printing of Sojourner Truth’s expanded compilation of autobiographical texts opens with an edited version of her original 1850 Narrative, 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.....