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Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition thus; 1905 copyright, no other dates. White cloth boards, silver stamped cover design and decoration, spine titles, moderate rub. Pages very good. Bind good; hinges intact. Classic beautiful portrait plates throughout. Frontispiece portrait plates of mother and daughter. A Great Mother: Sketches of Madam Willard by Her Daughter, Frances E. Willard, and Her Kinswoman, Minerva Brace Norton. A biography of Mary T. H. Willard by her daughter, the noted feminist and women's suffrage activist, Frances E. Willard. Dedicated to the White Ribbon Women of the world. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. She developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU, encouraging its membership to engage in a broad array of social reforms through lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. Her vision encompassed raising the age of consent, labor reforms such as the eight-hour work day, prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights. 297 pages. Insured post.
