Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times.
by MILLER, Alice Duer
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- Hardcover
- first
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1915). First Edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), 94 pages. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue on the spine, with blue printed paper label on the upper cover providing author & title.
Covers soiled, modest edge wear, foxing throughout (heavy at times), one leaf with corner crease, a good or so copy of an important book.
Alice Duer Miller's gathering of satirical poetry, prose, & a three-page play all related to women's rights & suffrage, much of which was originally published in the New York Tribune. Particularly engaging is the section entitled "Campaign Material" in which Ms. Miller provides tongue-in-cheek reasons for denying suffrage:
"BECAUSE no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote;
Because no women who may vote will attend to her domestic duties;
Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to; ...
Because will form a solid party and outvote men ..."
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1872
- Title
- Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times.
- Author
- MILLER, Alice Duer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1915)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alice Duer Miller, Women's Rights, Suffrage, Feminism, Poetry, Social Movements,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Social Movements, Protest, Labor; Suffrage;
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