STRACHEY, Ray.

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The Cause. First edition, first impression, of Ray Strachey's "best-known and most successful book" (ODNB), which was for many decades regarded as the classic account of the English women's movement. Included as Appendix I is "Cassandra" (pp. 395-418), a previously unpublished essay on the position of women in society by Florence Nightingale."While acknowledging in a limited way the importance of the militants, [The Cause] established a version of the suffrage movement that endorsed the views and celebrated the role of Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS" (ODNB).This copy is in a variant binding. It is more typically seen in a paler reddish-brown cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, with a frame blocked in blind to the front cover. The lettering is the same in both bindings, as is the presence of the G. Bell & Sons imprint at the foot of the spine. The price 15-/net is given on the jacket spine; the present jacket has a small bell motif between the price and the imprint at the foot, which is sometimes absent on other examples of the jacket (the price remaining the same).

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