first edition
1911 · NY
by SEAWELL, Molly Elliot
NY: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. 12mo, pp,119. Bound in brick red cloth, TEG, small rubbed mark on the front hinge, library book plate and former ownber's signatures on end paper, a very good tight copy. Krichmar 1963. An anti suffrage tract that criticises the suffragists for a lack of knowledge about politics.Molly Elliot Seawell (1860-1916) was the author of forty books, including regional fiction, romances, books for boys (primarily nautical stories), and nonfiction. She also penned political columns for newspapers in Washington, D.C., and New York. Socially conservative, she opposed the growing woman suffrage movement, and her consistent depictions of African Americans as servants and slaves—while acceptable to and endorsed by much of her white readership at that time—reflected her belief that blacks were inferior and peripheral members of society. (Inventory #: 56667)