1894 ELIZA BURT GAMBLE. Woman Proved Superior to Man by Darwinian Evolution. Important Feminist Work. John Wesley

1894 ELIZA BURT GAMBLE. Woman Proved Superior to Man by Darwinian Evolution. Important Feminist Work. John WesleyNot seen at auction since 1977 and no copies on the market at the time of cataloguing, the present is a superbly preserved first edition of Eliza Burt Gamble's influential feminist manifesto. Gamble, Eliza Burt. The Evolution of Woman. An Inquiry into the Dogma of Her Inferiority to Man. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press. 1894. First Edition. 356pp. In 1894, Eliza Burt Gamble published The Evolution of Woman, as a feminist

As both a prominent divine in his own right and as a primary influence on the literary output and life of Emily Dickinson

in the late 1830s

Finney is specifically the target of the present work

In addition to the poems of Phillis Wheatley

bright and clean

Very solid

Textually clean with no markings and internally very solid

or to render it efficacious upon men’s souls

a blend of established Anglican doctrine and the warm

The Spirit of Holiness

the Abolition Societies of New York and Rhoad Island have severally communed prosecutions against divers vessels and their owners who have been engaged in similar practices: and we have good reason to hope they will be successful

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