[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Margaret Sanger AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Charles Agvent
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Fri Dec 27 11:16:11 EST 2019
SANGER, Margaret. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
(1938). First Edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece
photograph of Sanger. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Very
light rubbing to spine. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
In her job as a nurse for maternity cases for mostly poor mothers in New
York, Sanger often observed women resorting to self-induced abortions.
Mrs. Sanger nursed one mother, close to death after a self-inflicted
abortion, back to health, and heard the woman plead with a doctor for
protection against another pregnancy. "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof,"
the physician said. The mother died six months later during a second
abortion, and Sanger soon renounced nursing forever: "I came to a sudden
realization that my work as a nurse and my activities in social service
were entirely palliative and consequently futile and useless to relieve
the misery I saw all about me." (#019610) $750.00
https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/019610/margaret-sanger/an-autobiography
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