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New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. . 8vo, full maroon cloth, front gilt with vignette of lake in foreground with mountains in the rear; very bright copy with slight wear to the foot of the spine INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the front free endpaper to Eliza Brush Prisson, the widow of the great Yale geologist Louis Valentine Prisson.LeVene collaborated with Schuchert on several scientific works. The present book's "drawings of geologic features and of ancient forms of life are the work of Miss M. Alice Hubbard, Mrs. Louise Nash and Miss Lisbeth B. Kraus...." A interesting joint effort by four women with scientific training at a time when this field was dominated by men.
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The Earth and Its Rhythms
by [WOMEN IN SCIENCE ]. Schuchert, Charles and Clara M[ae] LeVene
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Julia Magaret Cameron: Pioneer of Photography
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London: The Fountain Press, 1948. . 4to, cream cloth; dust jacket with abrasions at head and tail
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National Park Seminary "The Glen School" (Incorporated) for Young Woman, Washington, D. C. Suburbs
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Forest Glen, Maryland: [The School; Munder-Thomsen Press], 1908. . 8vo, white cloth, front pictorial, printed in black, gold and green. No copy of this date located; OCLC has three holdings for an edition dated 1909 and two holdings for a 1904 printing; none of them in Maryland.Beautifully printed by Munder-Thomsen Press in Baltimore with some printing in red. Definitely an "up-market production"
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Past Forgiveness?
by MAJENDIE Lady Margaret
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New York: P. F. Collier, 1890. . 12mo, printed tan wrappers, printed in blue and black Vol. I, No. 8 of the "Railway Library" series, "Issued Semi-Monthly". Originally published in London (in two volumes) by Bentley in 1889.We have only located one copy of another edition, also published by Collier in the "Once a Week Library" (Vol. I, no. 19),1890There are [2] pp. of advertisements at the beginning of the volume, and [8] at the end, all addressed to the female market.The authoress was born Margaret Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres in 1850. She married Lewis Ashhurst Majendie (of Hedingham Castle, Essex--a lawyer and Member of Parliament who died in 1885). She died in January 1912
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Sorosis [Membership List] 1923Ð1924
by [FIRST WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL CLUB]
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New York: [The Club], 1924. . 12mo, pale wine colored stiff wrappers; front cover printed and faded with dampstain on lower inner corner. Sorosis was the first professional women's club in the United States. The club was organized in New York City with 12 members in March 1868, by Jane Cunningham Croly. Croly had long wanted to open opportunities for women and for women to play a greater role in molding American society. The specific event sparking the creation of Sorosis occurred in April 1868 when the New York Press Club decided to bar women from its dinner honoring Charles Dickens on his American tour. Although the Press Club agreed at the last minute to open their doors to women if enough expressed a desire to attend the Dickens's soiree, it was too little too late to satisfy Croly and her friends. (Years later, the Press Club formally apologized to Sorosis.) Among its founding members were Josephine Pollard, a children's author, and Fanny Fern Parton, a…
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Women and Other Enigma. Being certain meditations of my friend the cynic.
by [HUMOR. Maynard Laurens
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Boston: The Gorham Press, [1912]. . Small 4to, tan boards, somewhat soiled; title lettering in red on front cover, together with a photographic label Microfilm only record in OCLC.
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