YATES, Elizabeth Upham.

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Glimpses into Chinese Homes. First edition, inscribed by the author to a fellow Maine suffragist on the front free endpaper, "Mrs. Ann Greely, with kind regards, the author, Dec. 25 1890", with Greely's book label to front pastedown. This edition is now uncommon, especially inscribed, the present copy in notably attractive condition.The recipient, Ann Jarvis Greely (1831-1914), would have been known to Yates through their shared engagement in the suffrage lecture circuit. Greely was active in her local suffrage movement and organized a series of suffrage lectures and a "woman's rights" ball in Ellsworth in 1857, which included Susan B. Anthony as a speaker. From her mid-20s she was, like Yates, an avowed and outspoken temperance worker and was active in the anti-slavery movement. In 1851 she opened the Old Stand, a millinery shop on Main Street, thereby becoming one of the first recognized businesswomen of Maine. Yates (1857-1942) was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church and travelled to China as a missionary under the auspices of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society in 1880, staying for six years. Yates was inspired to reform in the US based on what she had learnt in China and "reflected in her book on Chinese women's freedoms in Peking, and their ability to excel equally with men when given access to education" (Risk, p. 157). She began lecturing for the temperance, suffrage, and abolition movements in the 1890s and became a leading state advocate, speakin

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