1842 · Providence
by Whipple, Frances Harriet
Providence: Burnett & King, and Boston: Little & Brown; York: D. Appleton & Co, 1842. 12mo, pp. [5]-219, [3]; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine ends rubbed, text cocked, lower joint starting, front free endpaper lacking, spotting throughout, religious evocations penciled into margins; good. Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall was "an abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights. In contrast to many other 19th-century women writers, throughout most of her adult life she earned her living as an author; at the same time she often donated her writing for (truncated)