signed first edition
1900 · Boston
by GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson]
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1900. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 298. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in green and gold, and signed MLP, Spine corners little rubbed, ownership signature of Mrs. Annie Oakley (not the famous markswoman) in 1901 on half title, a very good copy, The author's fourth book. Feminist, author and lecturer, Gilman was born in Hartford, Conn in 1860. NAW: "Carrie Chapman Catt placed Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the head of her list of America's dozen greatest women; in her time she was certainly the leading intellectual of the woman's movement in the United States. In this work Gilman argues for day care centers to free women for other endeavors, (truncated)