Drop Title Miss Dorothea L. Dix and Her Life-work

by Caroline A. Kennard, Womens' History, Literature

$150 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

N.p.; privately printed, 1888 . First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 24pp. Mild cover soil, oxidation to staples, with some trivial external wear; Very Good+.Brief biography and memorial tribute to Dix, quoting extensively from letters written to her contemporaries. Caroline A. Kennard 1827-1907 was a pioneering American woman scientist and activist for women's rights, perhaps best remembered today

• Binding: Wrappers

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