[Rarebooks] FS: AMERICA'S FIRST SUFFRAGIST COOKBOOK, 1886

[Charles Agvent]

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BURR, Mrs. Hattie A. (editor). THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE COOK BOOK: Containing 
Thoroughly Tested and Reliable recipes for Cooking, Directions for the 
Care of the Sick, and Practical Suggestions, Contributed Especially for 
This Work. Boston: Published in aid of the Festival and Bazaar, 1886. 
First Edition. Small octavo (3" x 5-1/2") in original cloth-backed 
printed and decorated boards; xiv, 149 pages. Created as a fundraising 
tool for Massachusetts suffragists, AMERICA'S FIRST SUFFRAGIST COOKBOOK 
is a collection of recipes pulled together from many eminent women of 
the time including Lucy Stone, Abigail Scott Duniway, Julia Ward Howe, 
May Wright Sewell, Frances Willard, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Mary A. 
Livermore. The book concludes with a section of "Eminent Opinions on 
Woman Suffrage" quoting Plato, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, 
Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Previous 
owner's name, Mary Shannon of Newton, Massachusetts, is written on the 
title page. At the time, there were two Mary Shannons in Newton, an aunt 
and a niece, living in the same house, known as Mary Sr. (1813-1887) and 
Mary Jr. (1836-1901). They and Mary Jr.'s father, Oliver, were active in 
the abolitionist and suffragist movements. As typical for cookbooks of 
this period, this is well used. A small piece of paper containing a 
recipe is pinned to the front endpaper resulting in a small hole from 
the pin to the title page. Contents are complete and generally very 
clean, but there is one detached signature and the text block is 
detached from the rear board. Boards are rubbed and a bit worn but quite 
presentable. A Good example of a scarce book.

For more on this book and other suffrage cookbooks published after this, 
see 
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/woman-suffrage-cook-book-prints-recipes-subversion/ 
and 
https://emilycontois.com/2012/07/13/the-woman-suffrage-cookbook-of-1886-culinary-evidence-of-women-finding-a-new-voice-in-a-time-of-great-transition/ 
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