Item #15605 First Edition of an Important Early Treatise on Women in the Public Sphere (1867). Caroline Dall.
First Edition of an Important Early Treatise on Women in the Public Sphere (1867).

First Edition of an Important Early Treatise on Women in the Public Sphere (1867).

Caroline Dall. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and the Law. Printed in Boston: Lee and Shepard (1867). Early ownership signature of James Gould dated 1867 to ffep. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law (1867) was Dall's argument that the modern woman was no longer content to be in the domestic sphere and should be allowed to participate in public life. The New York Evening Post called this collection "the most eloquent and forcible statement of the Woman's Question which has been made." Dall was a founder of the Social Science Association (1865). Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as well as members of the Transcendentalist movement in Boston.

Item #15605

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