Rare Suffragist Pamphlet "Of Egyptian Women" 1887, Only Known Copy Outside Collections of Harvard and Duke

Charlotte Beebe Wilbour

First Edition

Association for the Advancement of Women Fifteenth Annual Congress New York, October 1887 By Charlotte Beebe Wilbour. Published in 1887 & privately printed at 164 Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, this address was delivered in New York in October of 1887. Disbound copy has 31 pages, measures 8.5" by 5.5" & comes in 2 sections with detached half title page. Contents are clean. Topics include: Women in Religion, Coptic Women, Muslim Women, Levantine Women, Woman in Society, Women in the Family, Schools and Education, Woman under the Law.

Charlotte Beebe Wilbour (Mar. 2, 1833-Dec. 25, 1914), Suffragist, was educated at Wilbraham Academy. She was associated with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a worker for suffrage for women, and became known as an eloquent and forceful public speaker. She was a founder of the Sorosis Club, and was elected its president in 1870 and re-elected five times. She devoted much time and effort to securing a permanent foundation for it, and was instrumental in organizing the Association for the Advancement of Women that was formed by it in 1873. She instituted lectures on health and dress reform, suggested and aided in preparing entertainments for various purposes, and assisted many women in obtaining public recognition. She lived abroad with her husband in 1875-1900, but despite living outside America, she maintained her interest in the elevation of her gender and sought every opportunity to labor for it. The Wilbour Library of Egyptology in the Brooklyn Museum is named for him as is Wilbour Hall and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship at Brown University. A special collection of Wilbour family correspondence can be found in Special Collections at Hamilton College, New York. These include a file of letters between Charles Wilbour's wife, Charlotte, and noted Suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Isabella Beecher Hooker, among others.The Wilbour Archival Collection documents the research and expeditions of Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833-1896), one of the first American Egyptologists. This collection includes a wide variety of materials such as articles, letters, inscriptions, notebooks, notes, publications, squeezes, bookplates, maps, and photographs. In addition to his letters, Wilbour's research notes and notebooks offer insight into his work and provide detailed accounts of his observations and travels. Additional items of interest are inscriptions that Wilbour copied directly from sites or publications, and copies of published inscriptions with his hand-written annotations. Of particular interest are Wilbour's hand written copies from inscriptions located in the Temple of Ombos, which reflect his meticulousness and attention to detail.

The Wilbour Library of Egyptology today is one of the world's most comprehensive research libraries for the study of ancient Egypt. The nucleus of the collection comes from the personal library of Charles Edwin Wilbour, an American Egyptologist who also assembled the Museum's extensive Egyptian antiquities collection. With over 35,000 volumes, the Wilbour Library is an important resource for textual and visual information about the history of ancient Egypt. It also holds material on art and culture of the ancient Middle East. At the time that this description is being written, only two copies exist in American institutions; one at the library of Harvard, the other at the library of Duke University. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.

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