[Rarebooks] FS: Julia Ward Howe MANUSCRIPT: "It is not natural for women to make their lives entirely secondary to and dependent upon those of man."

[Charles Agvent]

[HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA WARD 
HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. 
First Edition. Volume 1 only of two volumes in original cloth-backed 
boards and the scarce dustwrapper. One of 450 numbered copies of the 
Large-Paper Edition with a lettered (A W. S.) leaf of Howe's unsigned 
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher, this example with 23 
lines including some exceptional content on women's rights. In full: "It 
is not natural for women to make their lives entirely secondary to and 
dependent upon those of man. Nature, who divides her offices so equally 
between the sexes, nowhere gives any indication of an inferior intention 
or position for the mothers of living things. On the contrary, it is 
natural for the male animal to show a certain respect and tenderness for 
his female companion, while she busies herself principally with the 
arduous duties of rearing her tender brood. The [?] of the him-her [?] 
is proverbial. Among insects, the female is usually stronger than the 
male, a fortunate fact, since to her belongs the office of finding food 
for the [?] family." Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a 
facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 
1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. A Fine copy with a Very Good example 
of the printed white dustwrapper. (#016167)        $500.00

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