The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman by Mona Caird - 1897

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 258 . Papeback. New.

New.

Facsimile Publisher. Used - Good. 1897. Some damage to cloth. Some pencil marks to contents pages. main text unmarked. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

London: George Redway, 1897 First edition. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt. Light soiling to cloth and rubbing to head of spine. Octavvo. A large copy with edges untrimmed. Contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf (Edmund C. Barnett). Foxing to endpapers and first and last few leaves. Otherwise quite clean throughout. A good, tight copy of this collection of the author's "most important feminist articles." "With its belief that legal, social and political equality would effect change from within…The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays (1897), [is] a collection of [Mona Caird's] most important feminist articles…Caird's work explores the themes most characteristic of the time: rights (of citizenship) versus duties (morality, rationality); the nature of womanhood (equal or different?); the sexual division of labour; and independence versus protection (e.g., relating to employment laws). "Writing from within a tradition of Enlightenment thought, Caird asserted women's right to full… Read More