first edition
1913 · New York
by Franklin, Margaret Ladd
New York: National College Equal Suffrage League, 1913. First edition. Good +. Inscribed by the author on the front flyeaf: "Marion / with love / from Margaret" (matching the author's handwriting and signature from a postcard in her papers at Columbia University). Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black. 315 pp. With an introduction by Martha Carey Thomas (1857 - 1935), the president of both Bryn Mawr College and the National College Equal Suffrage League. Some toning and dustsoiling to cloth, mostly at spine, and some edgewear. Numerical stamp to contents page (though the book does not appear to be ex-library). Binding somewhat loose. A Good+ copy of this critical feminist bibliography that is scarce in commerce.
In her introduction, Martha Carey Thomas explains that Margaret Ladd Franklin (1883? - 1960), a recent Bryn Mawr graduate, was asked to compile this bibliography by the National College Equal Suffrage League. Franklin spent "many weeks" in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, and the collections of the National American Woman Suffrage League to compile this bibliography, which begins with Plato's Republic and progresses chronologically to the works of figures like Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Jane Addams. Franklin records, with commentary, hundreds of books, congressional reports, articles, and pamphlets addressing the topics of suffrage and women's equality. Thomas writes that, at the time of Franklin's work, there was "in existence no complete collection or catalogue of books and articles on woman suffrage," making this a concerted (and very early) effort towards a comprehensive bibliography of the philosophy and practice of the women's suffrage movement.
Franklin followed in the feminist footsteps of her mother Dr. Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1939), a mathematician, logician, and psychologist. Dr. Ladd-Franklin was an innovative thinker who coined the logical concept of the antilogism (or inconsistent triad), conducted extensive research on color vision and color perception, and was one of the first women to teach at both Johns Hopkins and Columbia University. This bibliography includes one work by Dr. Ladd-Franklin: her 1893 article "Intuition and Reason" from the magazine Monist, which would later publish her daughter's work as well. Good +. (Inventory #: 6926)
In her introduction, Martha Carey Thomas explains that Margaret Ladd Franklin (1883? - 1960), a recent Bryn Mawr graduate, was asked to compile this bibliography by the National College Equal Suffrage League. Franklin spent "many weeks" in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, and the collections of the National American Woman Suffrage League to compile this bibliography, which begins with Plato's Republic and progresses chronologically to the works of figures like Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Jane Addams. Franklin records, with commentary, hundreds of books, congressional reports, articles, and pamphlets addressing the topics of suffrage and women's equality. Thomas writes that, at the time of Franklin's work, there was "in existence no complete collection or catalogue of books and articles on woman suffrage," making this a concerted (and very early) effort towards a comprehensive bibliography of the philosophy and practice of the women's suffrage movement.
Franklin followed in the feminist footsteps of her mother Dr. Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1939), a mathematician, logician, and psychologist. Dr. Ladd-Franklin was an innovative thinker who coined the logical concept of the antilogism (or inconsistent triad), conducted extensive research on color vision and color perception, and was one of the first women to teach at both Johns Hopkins and Columbia University. This bibliography includes one work by Dr. Ladd-Franklin: her 1893 article "Intuition and Reason" from the magazine Monist, which would later publish her daughter's work as well. Good +. (Inventory #: 6926)
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