CHARITY COOKBOOKS MASSACHUSETTS Burr Hattie A The Woman Su

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EARLIEST(?) SUFFRAGIST FUNDRAISING COOKBOOK (MASSACHUSETTS.) Burr, Hattie A. The Woman Suffrage Cook Book . . . Published in Aid of the Festival and Bazaar. xiv, 149 pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, heavily worn, contents loose in binding, with extensive marginal soiling and stains. Boston, 1886

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One of 2 editions published the same year. Among the more than 150 contributors are many of the leading women's rights advocates of the time, including Mary A. Livermore, Lucy Stone, Abigail Scott Duniway, Julia Ward Howe, May Wright Sewell, and Alice Stone Blackwell. The book concludes with a section of "Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage" quoting Plato, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Cook, page 109.