The Little Singer and Other Verses. This item is unavailable.The Little Singer and Other Verses

Emily Sargent Lewis was named Emily Shaw Sargent when she was born to George Henry Sargent and Sarah Swift Shaw on 26 February 1866 in New York City, New York. Not much has been found about her childhood, but she did grow up in NYC, the 1880 census listing her, at the age of 14, as residing at number 18 West 49th Street with her family. In about 1887 she married Wilfred Lewis (b 1865) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thereafter, she appears to have spent most of her adult live in the Philly area. Emily and Wilfred had five children: Rupert, Millicent, Winifred, Wilfred and Leicester between 1888 and 1905. Despite her large family, Emily was a socially active woman, fighting for women's suffrage during the early years of the 20th century. In 1912, two years after publishing her book of poetry, Emily wrote a play for the cause called "Election Day: A Suffrage Play" which gained significant acclaim at the time. Her book of poetry, The Little Singer and Other Verses, was published in 1910 when Emily was 44 years old. During the 1920's, Emily apparently traveled quite a lot, as there are ship manifest records of her returning to New York from places such as Bremen, Germany, Kobe, Japan, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Northampton, England. spine dull and printed paper spine label rubbed else a very good copy in originala green cloth with printed paper cover label. Inscribed and signed by Lewis and dated in 1918. se scans.…