My Wayward Pardner;; or, My Trials with Josiah, American, The Widow Bump, and etcetery. by Josiah Allen's Wife. (Marietta Holley) "Wimmen is my theme, and also Josiah" Illustrated by True M. Williams.
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1881. 8vo, pp. 490 + 2 pages of adv. Illustrated with 36 plates and in-text engravings. Frontis portrait, Bound in green cloth, stamped in gilt. A very good copy of a book usually found in "well-read" condition. Item #52960
"Author humorist and popularizer of woman's rights and temperance doctrines"[NAW] was widely read as Josiah Allen's Wife. Her 20 humorous works, written in dialect belong to the tradition of Yankee humor established before the Civil War. Holley however, took the convention a step further to present a rustic philosopher who was a woman and who had strong opinions supporting woman's rights and temperance.
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