Item #1762 [Women's Rights] Agnes E. Slack : Two Hundred Thousand Miles Travel for Temperance in Four Continents. Aelfrida Tillyard.
[Women's Rights] Agnes E. Slack : Two Hundred Thousand Miles Travel for Temperance in Four Continents

[Women's Rights] Agnes E. Slack : Two Hundred Thousand Miles Travel for Temperance in Four Continents

Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons Limited, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. (Inscribed & Signed First Edition with Original Press Photo) Green cloth over boards, title and single line border stamped in blind onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 12mo (7-1/4 inches [18.5 cm] tall), pp. xv, 249, illustrated with B&W photos, index. Inscribed, dated and signed by Agnes Slack on the ffep (using both recto and verso) with "...many kind thoughts..." and speaking of her further world travels since the publication of her biography. Volume with a tiny slant, toning and soiling to text block edges, light bumps to corners of upper board. DJ is toned with multiple closed tears and chips to spine ends and flap folds, scratch and a puncture to front panel. B&W Press photo is signed in negative and measures 5 x 7 inches. It has some rippling and a paperclip indentation at top edge. Verso are a dated rubber stamp "Reference Dept. / Sep 30 1920 / N.E.A.", pencil notation "Miss Agnes Slack / England" and a tipped in piece of paper having both typewritten ("Hon. Secretary of the World Woman [sic] Christian Temperance Union....") and explanatory pencil notations. Very Good / Good. Item #1762

"Slack counted 'three of the most remarkable women that the nineteenth century produced' among her close friends - Francis Willard, Lady Henry Somerset and Rosalind, Countess of Carisle (President of the NBWTA and a great campaigner for women's suffrage). She conversed with many high-ranking officials during her lifetime, including American Presidents Cleveland, Roosevelt and Harding and Mahatma Gandi ... stood on the platform with distinguished speakers both titled and untitled and spoke in such disparate places as small village halls and large palaces. In this respect she undoubtedly helped pave the way for increased female participation in the public sphere." Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

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