[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet of 'anti-feminist polemic'.] Pro Aris et Focis.

Author: 
Fanny Aikin-Kortright [Francis Aikin Kortright (1821-1900), novelist] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Printed by Yates and Alexander, Symonds Inn, Chancery Lane, E.C. [1869.]
£250.00
SKU: 16152

viii + 71pp., 8vo. No author is given on the title-page, but bound in with the pamphlet is the pink front wrap, on which Aikin-Kortright is named and the pamphlet is stated to be 'Printed for Private Circulation'. Dedication (p.iii) to 'MRS. S. C. HALL'. Preface (p.v) dated from 'Eldon Road, Kensington, December, 1869.' Inscribed at the head of the front wrap: 'With the author's respectful compliments.' In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. In addition to her work as a novelist, Fanny Aikin-Kortright is described by the Orlando Project as a publisher of 'anti-feminist polemic'. The only copy found on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat at the British Library. The British Library and Lambeth Palace have copies of a New York edition, published the following year.