Bloomer-Wearing Early Feminist -- A Statue of Courage, 1896

Women’s Suffrage Early Women’s Rights

Periodical

Early Magazine with Feminist cover: Truth. Vol. XIV - No. 458. January 25, 1896. Large format, 13 x 10 inches, 16 pages filled with articles and black and white cartoons. Front and back cover printed in full color. Cover illustration by Jay Hambidge is titled “Design for a Statue of Courage,” and shows a large stone statue of a woman wearing a bloomers, with her left hand on her hip, and studying a mouse that she’s holding by the tail in her right hand. Below, a man with two military medals stares up at her contemplatively while others stroll by. Very good condition with light wear and small losses at binding. An interesting, possibly satirical, image that compares women’s courage in personal and civil rights with the courage shown by war veterans.

Item #16316

Price: $125.00