The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.

Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, 1925 First edition. One of only a thousand copies, "the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt title. Octavo. With frontisportrait of the author, nearly seventy full-page and half-page photo reproductions and political cartoons. The photo reproductions include numerous portraits of suffragists, plus suffrage rallies and meetings and groups of suffragists campaigning in the streets. Also with title-page device representing Rhode Island suffragists. Back cover lightly soiled. Foxing to fore-edge; however, very clean and fresh throughout. A very good, tight copy inscribed by the author (September 20, 1937). The "Sub-Pioneers," in the words of Sarah MacCormack Algeo (1876 – 1953), were suffragists like herself who "came into the great game of 'Votes for Women' at the Eleventh Hour," but nevertheless "played a not inglorious part." Algeo writes: "I am a feminist first, last and all the time," (p. 13). She draws on her experiences as the chair Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association and the first president of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters to construct this history of the later years of the fight for women's suffrage in New England. The present work recounts suffrage milestones like the Rhode Island State Senate hearing a suffragist speech for the first time (p. 187), the 1914 Votes for Women Week, and the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst to New England (p. 169).