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Large 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [3], 2-698, [2], 3-6, [2] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gilt, silver, and black decorations with silver lettering on the front board, black and gilt lettering and black, silver, and gilt decorations on the spine; all edges sprinkled. Blue-green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Willard, several black and white plates, two color lithographs, a facsimile of a letter from Willard printed on blue paper, and with several in-text engravings. Introduction by Hannah Whitall Smith. Northern Illinois University, Jean Baker, Goucher College, "Frances E. Willard, 1839-1898." The autobiography of the best-known leader of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, an organization that empowered women politically to advocate for female suffrage, raising the marriage age for girls, prison reforms, and of course, laws that prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol. The Union boasted half a million dues paying members in the 1890's, and was a major social influence in the United States. The organization provided a voice for women, and a sort of autonomy outside the home to express themselves. Although Willard is remembered for growing the organization into a large one, her advocacy stopped short of full social reform, as she refused to support Ida B. Wells' anti-lynching campaign. Willard is also recorded as struggling with repressed homosexuality throughout her lifetime. Light rubbing to the extremities. Seller Inventory # 000013087
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