first edition Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is bright and clean.
1923 · New York:
by Harriman, Florence Jaffray.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923 First edition, inscribed by the author, with her signaiture. In this memoir, Florence Jaffray Harriman, née Hurst (1870 – 1967) narrates her involvement in the suffragist movement, the New York social scene, and her frontline observations of both World War I and the Mexican Revolution. Chapter five of the book discusses the Colony Club, New York's first woman-only private social club, which Harriman co-founded in 1903. Much of Harriman's activism at the time was focused on improving conditions in New York factories and tenements, and she eventually broadened the scope of her activism to farmworker rights in Texas—which put her on the bank of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Revolution in 1915. During World War I, Harriman worked with Eleanor Roosevelt and the Red Cross, and served as the chair of the National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry from 1917 to 1919. The memoir ends shortly after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment: Harriman closes the book with chapters on her organizing with women voters and the postwar peace movement. . Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is bright and clean. . Octavo. With twenty-six plates, including frontisportrait of the author. Splitting to endpapers at gutter. Contemporary bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. A very good, fresh copy, inscribed by the author "with affectionate admiration." Though the scope of this memoir ends in the early 1920s, Harriman's political career flourished for several more decades. During World War II, she served as the minister to Norway, where she organized evacuation efforts for American citizens and members of the Norwegian government under the 1940 Nazi invasion. She is credited with safely evacuating Crown Princess Märtha and her three children. She published her account of the events in Mission to the North (1941). In 1944, Harriman wrote the foreword for the first English-language edition of Natalia Zarembina's Oswiecim, Camp of Death, one of the first publications on the Holocaust available in English.
(Inventory #: 17762)