Offthoughts About Women and Other Things (SIGNED).

Blue cloth. 8vo. 271pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page. An early work on women's rights from a man's point of view. Samuel Rockwell Reed was editor of the Cincinnati Gazette and author of a Civil War history and a future war novel. This collection of essays is interspersed with chapters on women such as- About Marrying Rich; Early History of the Women's Movement; Is Woman Superficial?; Is Woman a Living Lie?; Rise and Fall of Woman's Dress Reform; The Case Against Woman- A Rehearing; the Chicago Marriage Disability; The Mother-in-Law; The Rights of Women in Society; The Trousers Movement; and much more. A very good copy with some light wear to the spine tips and some light spotting to the covers. The text is very good with some light soiling.