AUTOBIOGRAPHY; and MEMORIALS OF HARRIET MARTINEAU, by Maria Weston Chapman
Boston: Osgood, 1877. First American edn. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 594; vi, 596. Illustrated with several wood engravings., frontispiece portrait. Edited by Maria Chapman. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Donor's presentation on blank of Vol. 1.Some foxing here and there, cover somewhat worn at edges, front hinge of Vol. 1 partly tender, but o/w VG set. Item #43558
Utilitarian, feminist, abolitionist, free trader and world traveller; the author was an astute observer of her own and other cultures. Involved from early 1830 in the US abolitonist movement, Chapman was Garrison's chief lieutenant in the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society. This volume includes 460 pages of memorial tributes to Martineau.
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