BLAIR, Catherine.

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Rural Journey: a History of the S.W.R.I. from Cradle to Majority. First and only contemporary edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the recto of the front free endpaper, "To Julia with love from the author. May 1940", and signed by her on the half-title.A suffragette, Blair (1872-1946) founded the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes in 1917 to support women in the Scottish countryside through education and the forging of social networks. It continues to this day as the SWI.The fragile dust jacket carries a wraparound image of Blair's embroidered panel illustrating the SWRI's history.

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