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  Scarce first edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Political Economy For Beginners

  FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett.

  Political Economy For Beginners.

  London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1870.

  Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett's immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square, at the unveiling of which UK Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged, "I would not be standing here…

  Price: $5,000.00     Item Number: 134388

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  Jane Addams' The Long Road of Woman's Memory; Signed by her at Hull House

  ADDAMS, Jane.

  The Long Road of Woman’s Memory.

  New York : The Macmillan Company, 1917.

  First edition, second printing of Addams' work exploring the influence of memory on women's experience of life at Hull House. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With all good wishes from the author Jane Addams Hull-House Chicago." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

  Price: $1,850.00     Item Number: 96140

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