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1884 Our Famous Women Clara Barton Harriet Beecher Stowe Alcott History
Massive and richly illustrated 1884 subscription-era volume profiling major American women of the 19th century, includingClara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, Maria Mitchell, Lucy Larcom, Frances Willard, and many others.
Beautiful half-leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Hundreds of pages with striking engravings, portraits, Civil War scenes, reform movements, Red Cross imagery, prisons, hospitals, abolitionist themes, frontier scenes, and women’s activism.
A visually impressive Victorian Americana volume with strong women’s history and Civil War crossover appeal.
Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1884.
Condition: Attractive, solid copy with rubbing and scuffing to leather, edge/corner wear, and general age wear. Interior largely clean and highly displayable. Binding sound.
OUR FAMOUS WOMEN: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times
Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington & Co.; Chicago, Ills.: A. G. Nettleton & Co., 1884.
A substantial and visually compelling late-Victorian subscription history devoted to the leading American women of the nineteenth century, richly illustrated throughout with engraved portraits and dramatic narrative scenes.
This large-format 1884 production brings together biographies, memoir-style episodes, reform history, Civil War material, literary figures, abolitionist themes, medicine, education, prison reform, suffrage, and temperance movements into one expansive illustrated volume. The book is especially strong for collectors ofwomen’s history, Civil War Americana, Red Cross history, nineteenth-century reform movements, and Victorian illustrated books.
Featured subjects include:
- Clara Barton
- Louisa May Alcott
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Julia Ward Howe
- Lucretia Mott
- Frances E. Willard
- Maria Mitchell
- Lucy Larcom
- Harriet Prescott Spofford
- and many other influential American women writers, reformers, educators, activists, and public figures.
The illustration program is unusually strong and gives the volume real visual power. Among the most striking plates and scenes are:
- Clara Barton Entering Strasburg with the German Army
- The Banner of the Red Cross
- portraits of Clara Barton and Louisa May Alcott
- prison reform and New York Tombs scenes
- urban child-life and street scenes
- Civil War nursing imagery
- abolitionist material connected to Harriet Beecher Stowe
- temperance and labor reform scenes
- dramatic city and frontier episodes throughout
The binding itself is highly attractive: half leather over marbled boards with marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label, and classic Victorian subscription-book craftsmanship. The book has excellent shelf presence and displays beautifully.
Condition: A solid and attractive copy with rubbing and scuffing to leather, moderate edge and corner wear, and general age-related handling. Marbled boards and endpapers remain vivid and decorative. Interior generally clean with strong impressions to the engraved illustrations. Binding sound and entirely serviceable.
A remarkably broad and visually rich snapshot of nineteenth-century American womanhood — blending literature, reform, medicine, abolition, Civil War service, education, and social activism into one ambitious Victorian historical production.
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