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Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) President of the Congress. Papers Read at the Third Congress of Women, Syracuse, October 13, 14, and 15, 1875.
[Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1875].
First edition, octavo, publisher's limp paper wraps (detached, chipped with edge loss, stab sewn, 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.
This report on the third congress includes printed copies of papers delivered in Syracuse in the fall of 1875, beginning with Vassar College professor Maria Mitchell's address as president. Topics covered include the place of women in public schools and education, marriage & work, woman in the ministry, journalism, uses of money, practical measures to promote the financial independence of women, ethics & aesthetics of dress, science for women, and much more. In her paper, Superfluous Women, Mary Livermore writes about unmarried women, seen as useless, unnecessary and redundant by writers like Henry James, who calls an unmarried woman a social failure. Livermore closes with a list of "superfluous" women who somehow found a way to contribute to society, albeit as single people, including Florence Nightingale, Frederika Bremer, Clara Barton, Charlotte Cushman, Harriet Hosmer, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Louisa May Alcott, among others.
