SUFFRAGE

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[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Lords and the Married Women's Property Bill. Four Articles from "The Times," "Economist," "Spectator," and "Manchester Examiner & Times." June, 1870.

Author: 
[Married Women's Property Bill, 1870] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer] [female suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Printers, Pall Mall. [1870.]
£120.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. The only copy traced, either on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, at the London School of Economics.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Debate in the House of Commons on the Second Reading of the Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill. Introduced by Mr. HINDE PALMER, on Wednesday, February 19th, 1873.

Author: 
[Married Women's Property Act, 1873; Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme; J. G. Shaw Lefevre; John Hinde Palmer; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer]
Publication details: 
Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Printers. 1873. [At foot of last page: 'Copies of this pamphlet may be had from Miss WOLSTENHOLME, 63, Finborough Road, London, S.W.']
£120.00

22pp., 8vo. Disbound, and with title-leaf loose, otherwise in good condition, lightly-aged. J. G. Shaw Lefevre, as well as Gregory, Lopez, O. Morgan, Staveley Hill, W. Fowler, W. S. J. Wheelhouse, P. H. Muntz, H. C. Raikes, and the Attorney General. Three copies on COPAC, and three on OCLC WorldCat. No copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Legislation. A Letter addressed to the Editors of the Leeds Mercury.

Author: 
[Lucy Wilson of Leeds (1834-1891), promoter of women's education; Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights]
Publication details: 
Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. [Signed and dated in type on p.4: 'LUCY WILSON. | Hilary Place [Leeds], 20th June, 1874.', with postscript of 26 June.]
£100.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, aged and worn, disbound with evidence of side stitching. For more on Wilson see her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. No copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed French pamphlet, inscribed to Lord Houghton.] Question proposée par la Classe des Belles-Lettres et Arts. ['concernant la condition économique des femmes, leur éducation, leurs salaires, [...]']

Author: 
[Louis Guillard, Président; Charles Fraisse et E. Faivre, Secrétaires généraux] Académie Impériale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon, France] [women's suffrage; nineteenth-century feminism]
Publication details: 
[Lyons, France.] 'Association typographique lyonnaise. - Regard, rue Tupin, 31.' Undated [1870 or later].
£80.00

2pp., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, unbound, with slight loss to one corner (not affecting text). Inscribed at head of first page: 'Lord Houghton | de la part d'Arlès-Dufour'. Lord Houghton is better known as Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885); Jean Barthelemy Arlès Dufour (Barthelemy Francois Arlès Dufour) (1797-1872) was a leading Lyons silk manufacturer.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Report of a Meeting in St. James' Hall, on Saturday, March 25th, 1871, for the London National Women's Suffrage Society.

Author: 
[London National Women's Suffrage Society] [Jacob Bright; Lyon Playfair; Cliffe Leslie; Professor Fawcett; George Howell; P. A. Taylor; Auberon Herbert] [female emancipation; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[London National Women's Suffrage Society] [1871.]
£120.00

15pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged and worn, no wraps, disbound, with outer leaves separating. Reports of speeches by Bright, Playfair, Leslie, Fawcett, Howell, Taylor and Herbert. Two copies on COPAC and three copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet containing a speech by John Stuart Mill.] Report of a Meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Held at the Gallery of the Architectural Society in Conduit Street, Saturday, July 17th, 1869.

Author: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [John Stuart Mill; Rev. Charles Kinglsey; Professor Henry Fawcett; Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes); John Morley; Professor David Masson]
Publication details: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] ['London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-street Square and Parliament Street'] [1869.]
£350.00

34pp., 8vo. Drophead title. Disbound, with front leaf loose, otherwise in good condition, lightly-aged, without wraps. Including a seven-page speech by John Stuart Mill (pp.7-13); a speech of three and a half pages by the Rev. Charles Kingsley (pp.14-17); and others by Mrs Taylor; Thomas Hare; Boyd Kinnear; Lord Houghton; John Morley; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, P. A. Taylor; Professor Masson; Mr Stansfield. Three copies on COPAC, and none (other than surrogates) on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy curently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet containing speech by John Stuart Mill.] Report of a Meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Held at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Saturday, March 26th, 1870.

Author: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage; John Stuart Mill; Jacob Bright; Lyon Playfair; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; Helen Taylor; Auberon Herbert; Sir Robert Anstruther; Mrs Fawcett]
Publication details: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] ['London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-street Square and Parliament Street'] [1870.]
£350.00

34pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Includes a five-page speech by John Stuart Mill (pp.4-9), and others by Mrs Taylor, Professor Cairnes, Mrs Grote, Sir Robert Anstruther, Mrs Fawcett, Lord Amberley, Miss Helen Taylor, Auberon Herbert, Jacob Bright, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Miss Hare, Professor Hunter, Sir Wilfred Lawson. Four copies on COPAC, and two (other than surrogates) on OCLC WordCat. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Extracts from Mr Mill's Subjection of Women. With Permission of Messrs. Longman & Co.

Author: 
[John Stuart Mill] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Published for the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, by Messrs Trübner and Co., 6 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. [Circa 1870.]
£240.00

16pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly-aged and creased, with minor marking to last page, no wraps, disbound. No copy in the British Library. COPAC lists several copies. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Mr. Hinde Palmer's Married Women's Property Bill. (From the Law Times, March 1, 1873.)

Author: 
[John Hinde Palmer; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; Married Women's Property Bill, 1873] [Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918)] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
['Copies of this paper may be had from Miss WOLSTENHOLME, 63, Finborough Road, S.W.'] ['A. Ireland and Co., Printers, Manchester.'] [1873.]
£90.00

4pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy on COPAC, and the only copy on OCLC WorldCat at the National Library of Australia.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] An Appeal to the Women of the United Kingdom by Women: On a subject demanding immediate attention.

Author: 
[Isa Craig [Mrs. Craig-Knox] (1831-1903)] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Houlston and Wright, Paternoster Row. 1860.
£200.00

8pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC. OCLC WorldCat only lists one copy, at the University of Minnesota, whose entry attributes the title to Isa Craig.

[Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, London.] Choice of a Business for Girls. Dressmaking, Sick Nursing, Domestic Service, and some other Employments and Handicrafts. ['Tract No. 3 - PART II' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.]

Author: 
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square. 1864.
£320.00

24pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting, 28th July, 1876.

Author: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland
Publication details: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Printers. 1876.
£135.00

15pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Two copies on COPAC, at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee, October 20th, 1873.

Author: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women.] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Printers. 1873.
£135.00

10pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Three copies on COPAC. No copy at the BL. No other copy currently on the market.

[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London; printed pamphlet.] Shall my Daughter learn a Business? ['Tract No. 2' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.]

Author: 
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, and 83a, Farringdon Street. 1863.
£320.00

12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC or OCLC Worldcat.

[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London; printed pamphlet.] How shall I educate my Daughter? ['Tract No. 1' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.]

Author: 
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, and 83a, Farringdon Street. 1863.
£250.00

12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copies on COPAC, surrogates on WorldCat.

[Female and child factory labour; printed pamphlet.] Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Report to the Local Government Board by J. H. Bridges, M.D., and T. Holmes, [...]

Author: 
[Association of Employers of Factory Labour in the four Counties of Lancaster, York, Chester, and Derby; Richard Haworth; J. Simpson; J. H. Bridges; H. Whitworth; T. Holmes; Anthony John Mundella]
Publication details: 
['John Heywood, Excelsior Printing Works, Hulme Hall Road, Manchester.'] Dated on p.45: '69, KING STREET, MANCHESTER, | 7th June, 1873.'
£50.00

The full title reads: 'Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Report to the Local Government Board by J. H. Bridges, M.D., and T. Holmes, on the Health of Women, Children, and Young Persons engaged in Textile Manufactures, with Special Reference to the Hours and Ages of Employment.' 45pp., 8vo. Disbound, with the signatures separated, otherwise in fair condition, lightly-aged, no wraps.

[Printed pamphlet.] Report of the Committee for amending the Law in Points wherein it is Injurious to Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, Held in Liverpool, November 14th, 1871.

Author: 
[Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; Committee for amending the law in points wherein it is injurious to women] Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; women's suffrage]
Publication details: 
[Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall. 1871.
£180.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Four copies on COPAC, and two copies on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed anti-feminist pamphlet.] The Woman is No Human Being.

Author: 
['Attila'] [Victorian anti-feminist polemic; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[New York, 1870s.] Without printer or date.
£150.00

31pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Excessively scarce: two copies on COPAC (at Lambeth Palace and the London School of Economics) and only one more copy (apart from surrogates) on OCLC WorldCat, at the Ohio History Convention. This copy, like the two on COPAC, lacking the title leaf, which, according to the WorldCat entry, gives the place of publication as New York, and the full title as 'No female suffrage! Attila: theology, logic, anatomy, physiology and philology united, to establish the truism that the woman is no human being'.

[Women's suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Remarks on Woman's Work in Sanitary Reform.

Author: 
'S. R. P.' [Susan Rugeley Powers] [The English Woman's Journal] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Publisher not stated. Undated [circa 1860].
£120.00

20pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Signed in type 'S. R. P.' at end of text (p.20), followed by a 'List of [17] Books Recommended at Page 2.' Four copies on OCLC WorldCat, and three more on COPAC: Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Oxford (the last of which states that it is reprinted from the English Woman's Journal). BL and LSE hold copies of a third edition.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Doctors: Or Medical Despotism in England. An Essay by Mrs. Hume-Rothery.

Author: 
'Mrs. Hume-Rothery' [Mary Catherine Hume-Rothery (1824-1885), Swedenborgian campaigner for medical reform] [Abel Heywood, Manchester printer; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, Printers and Publishers, 56 & 58, Oldham-street. London: T. W. Grattan, Publisher, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. In type, p.15: 'MARY C. HUME-ROTHERY. | 3, Richmond Terrace, Middleton, Manchester, 1st May, 1871.'
£200.00

16pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, unbound, with only the blank grey back wrap present. The only copy traced at the BL. See the author's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

[Female suffrage; printed handbill.] Mr. Mundella, M.P., on the Right of Women to Work for Wages.

Author: 
'Mr. Mundella, M.P.' [Anthony John Mundella [A. J. Mundella] (1825-1897); Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918)] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea. Signed in type at end: 'ELIZABETH C. WOLSTENHOLME, | 63, Finborough Road, London, S.W.'
£75.00

1p., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. In fair condition, aged and chipped at extremities. Laid down on leaf removed from book. No copy traced, either on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women's Need of Representation: A Lecture upon the Necessity of Giving Women the Parliamentary Franchise.

Author: 
'Miss A. I. Robertson [Anne Isabella Robertson], President of the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage; Author of "Myself and My Relatives," etc.'
Publication details: 
[Printed for the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage, Dublin.] Dublin: Alfred Webb, Printer, 74, Middle Abbey Street. (Late R. D. Webb and Son.) 1872.
£320.00

Subtitle: 'Printed for the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage, upon the motion of The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide, at a General Meeting of the Society held February 21st, 1872.' 18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. The only copy on COPAC (other than surrogates) at the LSE, with three copies of an 1873 edition. No copy on OCLC WorldCat. Note: "The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Remarks on the Obstacles to the more general Employment of Women, and on the Means of removing them. Reprinted from the English Woman's Journal.

Author: 
'J. B.' [Jessie Boucherett] [English Woman's Journal Company, Limited, London; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Published at the Office of the English Woman's Journal Company, Limited, 19, Langham Place, Regent Street, W. 1860.
£150.00

16pp., 8vo. Aged and worn, no wraps, disbound, with evidence of side stitching and slight loss to the last two leaves. Several copies listed on COPAC, No other copy currently omn the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] National Society for Women's Suffrage. Object. - To recover for Women the Ancient right of voting for Members of Parliament on a par with men. Intellectual and Moral Tendencies of Female Suffrage.

Author: 
'F. W. Newman, (Emeritus Professor of University College, London)' [Francis William Newman (1805-1897); National Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Printed for the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, by I. ARROWSMITH, Bristol. Undated.
£150.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy traced. Note: "The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote. Formed on 6 November 1867, by Lydia Becker, the organisation helped lay the foundations of the women's suffrage movement, furthered later by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the Women's Social and Political Union."

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Industrial Employment of Women in France compared with England. A Paper read at the Social Science Congress, Cheltenham, 1878.

Author: 
'Edward J. Watherston, F.S.S. of Pall Mall East London' [Edward James Watherston (1839-1904), London goldsmith and jeweller] [The Social Science Congress, Cheltenham, 1878] [women's suffrage]
Publication details: 
['London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-street Square and Parliament Street. [1878.]
£80.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Several copies on COPAC, but now scarce, with only one copy on the open market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Ladies' Sanitary Association. From the "English Woman's Journal."

Author: 
'B. R. P.' [Bessie Rayner Parkes] [The Ladies' Sanitary Association; The English Woman's Journal, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The Ladies' Sanitary Association.] London: Published at the Office, 14a Princes Street, Cavendish Square. [Printed by Odell & Ives, 18, Princes Street, Cavendish Square.] Undated [1859].
£90.00

15pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat.

[Helen Zimmern] Autograph Letter Signed "Helen Zimmern" to "Miss Haas" [pianist?]

Author: 
Helen Zimmern (1846–1934), German-British writer and translator (Nietsche etc) , sister of suffragist, Alice Zimmern.
Publication details: 
Hotel König von Ungarn, Schulerstraße, Wien [Vienna], no date
£56.00

Two pages, 8vo, some minor marking, chipping, and small closed tears, but text clear and complete. She will come to call on Miss Haas in a few days with a friend, and will then bring a parcel for her. She's caught a cold and is "not thgerefore in a very presenatble state". Not good because it defeats the object of her being in Vienna "to do theatres".

[National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, London.] Typed Letter Signed ('<Elie?> Stopford | Secretary') to Anglo-Irish poet Sylvia Lynd, describing a vacancy 'for a Press Writer, i.e. someone to conduct Suffrage and Anti-suffrage controversy'.

Author: 
[National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, London (<Elie?> Stopford, Secretary, a relation of Irish writer Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929)?]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Westminster, London. 4 June 1917.
£40.00

1p., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and creased paper. The first name of the signature is difficult to decipher. She writes that she met Lynd 'some time ago at Mrs. Green's', and that she remembered her name 'when Mrs. Heseltine suggested it in connection with a vacancy which we have at present time at this office. | The vacancy is for a Press Writer, i.e.

[Isabella Knox (Mrs. Craig-Knox), Scottish poet ('Isa') and women's rights campaigner.] Autograph Signature on part of letter.

Author: 
Isabella Knox [née Craig] [ Isa Craig ; Mrs. Craig-Knox] (1831-1903), poet under the pseudonym 'Isa', and campaigner for women's rights,
Publication details: 
Without date or place.
£25.00

On one side of the lower part of a leaf, measuring 10 x 12.5 cm. In fair condition, on lightly aged paper. Reads: '[...] have much pleasure in seeing you on Thursday Evening | Yours Very Truly | Isa Craig'.

[Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll').] Rare printed pamphlet titled 'Resident Women-Students'.

Author: 
Charles L. Dodgson [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) of Christ Church, Oxford, 'Lewis Carroll'] [Henry Parry Liddon (1829-90), Canon of St Pauls; women's B.A. degrees, University of Oxford, 1896]
Publication details: 
'SHEPPARD, PRINTER, OXFORD.' Signed in type at end 'CHARLES L. DODGSON. | CH. CH. [Christ Church] | Mar. 7th, 1896.'
£3,500.00

3pp., 8vo. The second page mispaginated '(3)'. Bifolium. One punch hole to top inner corner of each leaf (for the attaching of the item to others), affecting two words of text, pencil shelfmarks and the number '16.' in red ink at head of first page. Lightly creased on aged paper, with three horizontal fold lines. Williams and Madan 282B ('The Lewis Carroll Handbook', pp.198-199).

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