PASSION FLOWERS
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Mac Donnell Rare Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.Mac Donnell Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since August 18, 1997
Condition: Used
£ 608.14
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Howe, Julia Ward. PASSION FLOWERS. Boston:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First edition, inunrecorded color. Original blue cloth, spine extragilt. Her first book, published in an edition of1,000 copies, that caused a lot of chatter uponpublication and reached a third edition the sameyear. Nathaniel Hawthorne said she "ought to havebeen soundly whipped" for publishing it. Howe'sfrank and personal airing of her maritalgrievances is what upset proper Bostonians,especially her poem "Mind Versus Mill-Stream"which was a razor-sharp metaphor for a typicalVictorian man's unrealistic expectation of findingan obedient wife he could control. Howe's husband,Samuel Gridley Howe, nearly twenty years hersenior, demanded that she revise her poems for anyfuture editions (and resume their maritalrelations which had ceased the previous year).That did not happen, and she went on to pen "TheBattle Hymn of the Republic." This copy belongedto New England poet, Lucy Larcum, and isinscribed: "Lucy Larcum, From E. J. H., Waterbury,Conn., March, 1856." The poem that created theuproar is unmarked by Larcum, but the poemimmediately following has one stanza marked inpencil. Larcum knew something about mill-streams,having worked as a mill girl for ten years beforegaining fame and influencing views toward women innineteenth century America, and writing an accountof her childhood that is still read today. BAL9409 (noting other colors, but not blue).Costbooks 46c. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- PASSION FLOWERS
- Author
- Howe, Julia Ward
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Mac Donnell Rare Books
Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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