DANIELS, Elizabeth Adams

JESSIE WHITE MARIO; Risorgimento revolutionary

Athens OH: Ohio University, (1972). First Edition. 8vo, pp. vii, 199. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Black cloth. A little spotting at top edge, o/w a nice copy in price-clipped and somewhat scuffed and spotted dj. Item #48446

Mario (1832-1906) was active in women's rights, abolition, and social reform in England, and served as a courier between England and the Italian underground during the fight for Italian unification. She was courted by Alberto Mario while they were both in prison in Genoa. She became the Italian correspondent for "The Nation" during the last 40 years of her life.

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