Frances whipple (14 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 171 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

12mo, pp. [5]-219, [3]; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine ends rubbed, text cocked, lower joint starting, front free endpaper lacking, spotting throughout, religious evocations penciled into margins; good. Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall was "an abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights. In contrast to many other 19th-century women writers, throughout most of her adult life she earned her living as an author; at the same time she often donated her writing for causes she believed in, such as the abolition of slavery" (Wikipedia). Her fiction often had a political argument. In the case of The mechanic she aligns herself with the working class. Wright I, 1747. …

Reprint. 18mo. (13.75cm); original marbled paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; vii,[8]-127,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece. Board edges worn, with corners a bit rounded and some mild board exposure; small loss to paper at front cover, with some general aging and foxing to text; the lower third of the pictorial frontispiece has been skillfully supplied in facsimile; hinges sound; Very Good, with the title label still present. Reprint of this 1838 memoir by Elleanor Eldridge (dates uncertain; ca 1785-1865), a free woman of color and pioneering Black entrepreneur, who was the instigator of a celebrated civil trial following the fraudulent confiscation by creditors of her substantial ($4,000) estate in Providence, Rhode Island. Though ultimately unsuccessful - Eldridge eventually was forced to buy back her own property, using proceeds from the two volumes of her memoirs which she published specifically for that purpose - this was certainly one of the earliest civil actions brought by a Black woman plaintiff against a white defendant under American law. Being unlettered, Eldridge relied upon a "co-author," in the person of one Frances Harriet Whipple Green MacDougall, a writer on abolition and the daughter of a former employer. The result is a somewhat romanticized account of Elleanor's misadventures within the white business and legal establishment of Rhode Island, an amalgam of fact and fantasy that one historian has described as "reading like a romance novel." But despite occasional departures from fact, the AANB describes Elleanor's Memoirs as "a remarkable text about a remarkable woman, offering a celebratory depiction of an industrious, black workingwoman that contradicts negative popular understandings of black workingwomen's subordinate status.it also affirms a tradition of unlettered black women - Elizabeth Freeman in Massachusetts and Sojourner Truth in New York - who forged successful careers and marshaled their legal and social acumen to overcome racial prejudice" (AANB III:168). BLOCKSON 3367 (for the 1841 ed.). 88758.…

First edition. First edition. [5]-148 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored ribbed cloth, original yellow endpapers. A Good copy with staining to cloth, cloth chipped at head and tail, bumped corners, foxing to cloth and edges, hinges starting, top edge of front free endpaper torn off, contemporary bookseller's label to paste down. Rare in commerce. A collection of abolitionist essays, stories, and poems. Perhaps most significant is the long story "The Slave-Wife" by Frances Harriet Green née Whipple (Eleanor Eldredge's ghostwriter), which was a predecessor to Uncle Tom's Cabin by seven years. Includes a letter from John Brown, an essay on "Reform" by Wendell Phillips and another by Christian anarchist Adin Ballou, the poem "The Contrast" by James Russell Lowell, the poems "Lines Written in November" and "The Golden Ball" by Sarah Helen Whitman (Edgar Allan Poe's fiancé); a long letter on slavery in Texas by Ahmed el Korah; and more.…