Jun 02, 2022 - Sale 2607

Sale 2607 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Millett, Kate (1934-2017)
Archive, Typed Manuscripts & Letters.

Including three handwritten letters and one invitation with two holograph envelopes, a curriculum vitae; typed manuscripts of A.D., 8 1/2 x 11 in. 317 photocopied pages double-spaced, printed on both sides and held together with a black plastic strip binding (velo-bind), and The Looney Bin Trip, 609 single-spaced photocopied pages printed on both sides, in a three ring binder with additional holes for a strip binding along the gutter margin, one original marginal annotation in The Looney Bin Trip; all material from the 1980s and '90s and addressed to Sandra Norton, Dean of Arts & Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Loony Bin Trip, note the change in spelling, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1990; and A.D.: a Memoir, was published by Norton in 1995. Best known for her 1970 second-wave feminist tract, Sexual Politics, Millett was an artist and educator who paved the way for greater women's equality in the workplace.