Women's suffrage. A short history of a great movement.

8vo (some spotting on the sides and flylvs).

Green publ. cloth, black lettering & decoration to front board & spine.

First edition, first impression, of the leading women's suffrage campaigner's history of the movement, beginning with a discussion of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Fawcett is not only focused on the history of the movement, she is even more interested in its progress, and she details international successes in the pursuit of enfranchisement for women.
Prov. The People's Books (stamp).
Joined: 1. Mill, J.S. - The Subjection of Women. Second edition. London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. 8vo. Publ. cloth (some min. rubbings). Published the same year as the 1st ed. Mill strives to a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on one side, no disability on the other. - 2. Seawell, M.E. - The ladies' battle. New York, The Macmillan Co, 1911. 8vo. Red publ. cloth. - 3. Martin, E.S. - The unrest of women. New York, London, D. Appleton, 1913. 8vo. Green publ. cloth. First edition by the British bacteriologist and immunologist strongly opposed to women's suffrage. In this work he argued that women's brains were innately different from men's and were not constituted to deal with social and public issues. Prov. Name on flyleaf. - 4. Wright, A.E. - The unexpurgated case against woman suffrage. London, Constable and Co, 1913. 8vo. Blue publ. cloth. First edition. With dedication on flyleaf. Prov. Eva Collet Reckitt, founder of the left-wing bookshop "Collet's" on Charing Cross Road, London, in 1933 (bookpl.). (5 vol.)