Items related to Bloomer Girls
- Publisher-
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 0850430003
- ISBN 13 9780850430004
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Bloomer Girls
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Femina Books Ltd, 1967
ISBN 10: 0850430003
ISBN 13: 9780850430004
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First Edition. London, Femina Books [Published date: 1967]. Hard cover, 192 pp. First Edition. Good/ NO dust jacket. Red textured paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers. Binding tight. Light to moderate age spotting to edges of text block. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Missing dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From preface] Who was Mrs. Bloomer? Was she a rebellious housewife - a crank with a craze for cycling? Mr. Neilson Gattey strips away the layers of caricature which have distorted her image over the years. As the result of patient research into her writings and letters and those of her contemporaries, he reveals her to have been an attractive, auburn-haired little woman with blue eyes and a winning smile; a former governess who married a Quaker. She in fact never devised the costume named after her and was much more proud of being the first woman to own, edit and publish a paper exclusively devoted to the interests of women. This was 'The Lily'. In its May, 1851, number she startled the Victorians by advocating that women should adopt the form of dress worn by those recovering from the effects of tight-lacing. Mr. Gattey tells of the world-wide sensation this caused and the unexpected notoriety it brought her; how she and her friends found the costume a useful gimmick to attract men into the lecture halls to listen to their arguments in favour of equal rights. In his gallery of "Bloomer Girls" the author includes other remarkable feminists - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, the coloured ex-slave Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, to name but a few. Amelia Bloomer herself was in more ways than one a pioneer for, when nearing forty, she and her husband travelled eighteen hundred miles to the Middle West, where she devoted the rest of her life to trying to persuade the lawmakers of the newly opened-up territories to give women those rights still withheld from them in the Eastern States. In many instances allowing them to speak for themselves, Mr. Gattey brings vividly to life the colourful story of the early American feminists. Seller Inventory # 20210901018
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Bloomer Girls Gattey, Charles Neilson
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Jacket is marked/scuffed/very edgeworn with creases/small tears/nicks. Edgeworn boards with large nick in the bottom edge. Tanned/foxed textblock edge with nick in the side. Content is very good. Seller Inventory # 024336-18
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