Stainforth Francis John (7 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original printed wrappers bound in modern full red buckram. Very good. FIRST EDITION. This is the catalogue of the pioneering Stainforth library of women's literature, the first major auction devoted to the literary works of women writing in English from the mid-16th century to the Victorian era. Francis John Stainforth (1797-1866), an Anglican clergyman, spent decades assembling the largest private library of Anglophone women's writing built in the mid-nineteenth century. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge conducted the sale over six days in 1867. The catalogue lists 7,122 titles in over 8,000 volumes written and edited by more than 2,800 authors, almost all women. "When we think of 19th-century private libraries in Britain, we usually envision a gentleman's library like the one Jane Austen's brother Edward kept at Godmersham Park. Shelved in an English countryside estate, the library contained works mostly in English and Romance languages written by men in the genres of biography, history, geography, theology, literature, and travel writings. Stainforth's library rejects this patriarchal model and makes a political claim that womenstruggling working mothers, women of color, disabled authors, translators, children, aged writers, Jews, incarcerated poets, printers, schoolteachers, women who co-author with their husbands, survivors of assault, hymnists, those who publish only a single poem, and morehave a valued place in book history and on the shelf. He collected works by women writers not only from Britain but from America, Australia, Canada, and Asia who published between 1546 and 1866. His project, according to his catalog, was to collect a copy of every edition of every title by women poets, dramatists, and nonfiction writers before his death in 1866" (The Stainforth Library of Women's Writing website). References: H. T. W. "The Stainforth Library." The Woman's Journal 22 Sept. 1883 Leuner, Kirstyn J. "Locating Women's Book History in The Stainforth Library of Women's Writing." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 60 no. 4, 2020, p. 651-671.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Title: Catalogue of the extraordinary library, unique of its kind, formed by the late Rev. F.J. Stainforth: consisting entirely of works of British and American poetesses, and female dramatic writers, together with some interesting unpublished manuscripts and autograph letters: also, a few engravings framed and glazed: which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge . at their house on Monday, the 1st of July, 1867, and five following days, at one o'clock precisely.Author: Francis John StainforthPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03336800CollectionID: CTRG00-B1054PublicationDate: 18670101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Interleaved; prices and purchasers' names in margins.Collation: iv, 166 p.; 23 cm.