[Rarebooks] FS: Woman- Her Education and Influence - Reid 1847 New York Edition

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Woman- Her Education and Influence by Marion Kirkland Reid 1847 New York 
Stereotype Edition.

Published in New York by Fowlers & Wells in 1847.

“Marion Kirkland Reid (1815-1902) was an influential Scottish feminist 
writer, notable for her A Plea for Woman which was first published in 
1843 in Edinburgh, then in the United States in 1847, 1848, 1851, and 
1852 as ‘Woman, Her Education and Influence’. During an Anti-Slavery 
event in London during the month of June 1840, Kirkland witnessed some 
American woman delegates were unable to take part in the World 
Anti-Slavery Convention. There was a large debate after which Kirkland 
met the leader of the American woman delegates, Lucretia Mott. This 
event, and an article on "Women's rights and duties" in the Edinburgh 
Review of 1841, may have inspired Kirkland's book A Plea for Women, 
written in 1843. A Plea for Women is most likely the first work in 
Britain or the USA that gave importance to gaining both civil and 
political rights for women. The book was especially significant in the 
early years of the women's suffrage movement in the USA. A Plea for 
Woman was, as Susanne Ferguson points out in the preface to the modern 
reprint of the first edition, ‘a landmark book as the first to be 
written by a woman, for women, specifically arguing that the possession 
of the vote is crucial in ending discrimination’ against women in 
education and employment, and to gain equal rights under the law” 
[Wikipedia].

Hardcover. Publisher’s red embossed cloth with gilt titles. 5”x7.5”, 
[vi] 192 pages, with 12 portrait illustrations. Some soil and light wear 
to the covers, small dampstain at the lower gutter. There is a light 
‘ghost’ portrait image on the back of the front endpaper, probably from 
a loose image placed there once; all the images published in the book 
are bound in exactly where they are called for on the table of 
illustrations.

Period ownership inscription, “Mary J. Patch” carefully inked on the 
endpaper. [48862] $60

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