A Bird Of Passage And Other Stories

Chicago, IL: Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Very Good+. N.D.. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This is a small format book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book front cover and spine have illustrations and lettering in silver. The front inner hinge has a beginning crack. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned, due to the acid content of the paper. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown. Included are the short stories: A Bird of Passage, At the Green Dragon, and, An Idyll of London. "Unlike the WSPU, who only welcomed women as members, the Women Writers Suffrage League welcomed men, women and members from diverse political parties. The only dictate for membership to the Writer’s League, other than having been paid for a literary work, was support of the suffragette cause. These writers were agitators demanding access to the male dominated civic and social institutions, but they used their pens to influence society’s social scene and the theatre. Harraden therefore turned to this group as the WSPU became increasingly militant and exclusive. [3]She published her work in the suffragette paper Votes for Women and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States due to her involvement in the women’s movement. This included Holiday Campaigns in the Lake District for Liverpool WSPU organiser Alice Davies, which she took part in with the Australian suffragette Vida Goldstein. She also involved herself as a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary, and this, too is reflected in her fiction: The Scholar’s Daughter (1906) is set among lexicographers. Harraden spent several summer holidays lodging at The Green Dragon inn at Little Stretton, Shropshire, walking and writing. Her memories of this and the landlady, a Mrs Benbow, led to her writing a short story, At the Green Dragon, published in 1894." (from Wikipedia) .