BEYOND THE GATES
first edition
1883 · Boston
by [WARD], Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883. First edn. 8vo, pp. 196 + adv. Moderately worn pink cloth, a very good copy. BAL 20917, Wright II, 2629. This is BAL's first printing with 16pp of adv and a blank leaf, Page size: 615/16'4-7/16 in. Ward (1844-1911) wrote numerous books and articles advocating woman's rights, suffrage, and dress reform. She was the daughter of author Elizabeth Wooster Phelps (1815-52), a novelist who died when the novelst was 8. She was heavily influenced by her mother who described the dual nature of the life of women. (Inventory #: 17515)