Summer 2020 - Rare Books & Classic Hollywood Memorabilia
By Regency Antique Books
Jun 14, 2020
Arizona, United States
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LOT 116:

Virginibus Puerisque 1887 Robert Louis Stevenson SIGNED by Louise Chandler

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Virginibus Puerisque 1887 Robert Louis Stevenson SIGNED by Louise Chandler
Virginibus Puerisque 1887 Robert Stevenson Signed Louise Chandler to Friend Womens Rights Activist Laura Curtis Bullard RARE & IMPORTANT Signed & Inscribed by Louise Chandler to her lifelong friend and Women’s rights activist Laura Curtis Bullard. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908) published her first collection of poems, This, That & the Other, in 1854. The following year she wed Boston publisher William Moulton. A literary critic for the New York Tribune and Boston Herald, she also wrote collections of short stories, beginning with Bed-time Stories (1873), and a travelogue, Lazy Tours in Spain (1896). Laura Curtis Bullard (1831–1912) was an American writer and women's rights activist. She founded a newspaper called The Ladies' Visitor, and Drawing Room Companion and published two novels with women's rights themes, the best known of which is Christine: or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs. She was elected as a corresponding secretary for the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, at its founding meeting. She succeeded Stanton as editor of The Revolution, a women's rights newspaper founded by Stanton and Anthony. Historically important book

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