Forster, Margaret

Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839-1939.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. Item #19605

Stated 1st edition; 8vo.; viii, 355 pages; cloth backed boards; b&w illustrations; the book is divided into 8 sections, each exploring an area of experience in which vital and extreme change was effected and centers on the one woman responsible for change in that area: Caroline Norton and law; Elizabeth Blackwell and the professions, Florence Nightingale and employment, Emily Davies and education, Josephine Butler and sexual morality, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and politics, Margaret Sanger and birth control and Emma Goldman and ideology; very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Price: $12.00