Through Peace to Light

First separate edition. 32mo. Four leaves printed on rectos only. Stiff pictorial wrappers with front cover hand-painted with watercolor floral design as issued, bound with grosgrain ribbon as issued. This poem was first published under the Latin title, 'Per Pacem ad Lucem,' in her second collection of poems, *A Chaplet of Verses* (1862). Covers have faint crease at tip of one corner, original ribbon nearly separated at spine, else a near fine copy of charming, and fragile publication. Procter was a noted English, feminist, poet and philanthropist, her literary career began when she was a teenager, with the help of Charles Dickens. She was the said to be Queen Victoria's favorite poet, and was also popular in the United States, with her works being widely reprinted, and published as sheet music, up until World War I. Her philanthropy was focused on unemployed women and the homeless. She was actively involved with feminist groups and journals, serving as the editor of 'Victoria Regia' (of the Victoria Press), and she helped found the 'English Women's Journal,' in 1858 and, the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women, in 1859. Recent scholarship has speculated about her sexuality (she never married). She suffered from ill health, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 [see Blain, *Feminist Companion to Literature in English,* p. 873]. This volume lovely but amateurishly printed is unrecorded by *OCLC*. …