Probate Confiscation. Unjust Laws Which Govern Woman. By Mrs. J.W. Stow.

Boston]: Published and Sold by the Author 1877 Second edition, "revised and enlarged," has over a hundred pages of additional material. The first printing was in 1876. OCLC records just ten copies in libraries worldwide of this edition. Publisher's orange/red cloth, stamped in gilt with gilt spine. Beveled edges. . Octavo. Engraved frontisportrait of the author. Slight rubbing to extremities. Some foxing to fist few leaves and tissue guard. Leaves are otherwise clean throughout. Includes three stamps which read "please return to J.R. Ketchum. Fulton, N.Y." A very good copy of the uncommon second edition. Marietta Lois Beers Stow (1835?-1902) wrote the present work when she was denied an inheritance of $200,000 and fell into bankruptcy after the death of her husband. This book was "an unqualified attack upon this leprous-livered Probate Court" that robbed Stow of her inheritance and a condemnation of "the bastard power of moneyed might and sex-might over right, and the unjust and cruel laws made by man for the subjugation of woman" (Bennion, pp. 8, 10). (Inventory #: 17781)