Woman In America : AJ Graves 1843 [ Ex Columbus Public Library ]
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Rare first edition of Mrs AJ Graves ‘ anti-feminist work on women’s role and rights in the early Republic, “Woman In America” (1843) formerly owned by the Columbus Public Library
Graves, Mrs. A.J. Woman In America. Harper and Brothers : New York. 1843. First edition.
An example of the Cult of Domesticity, this book by the little known writer Mrs Ann Jane Graves of Baltimore who views the role of American women in Woman In America as the keepers and custodians of a home that is equal parts refuge and haven from a heartless world of business and economic prerogatives. Graves is specifically interesting in that her complaints about modern society are that women, like men, are beginning to feel drawn from domestic life into the corrupting worlds of business and politics. Opinions on her beliefs aside, considering the timing of the publication five years before the Seneca Falls convention (1848), her observations were astute.
One copy found in OCLC as of February 2022.
Small 8vo, 262pp, brown leatherette boards faux three-quarter bound with tape. Handwriting in white pen on front board and spine. Wear with minor losses along edges.Top bookblock edge darkened. Binding tape repairs to both interior hinges and title page gutter. Partial separation at back hinge interior. Ex Columbus Public Library with stamps and markings to front pastedown, first free endpaper, title and top preface margin. Pen annotation bottom margin of introduction. Pages clean. Good – fair.
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