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BRA2225
Biography about Susan B. Anthony that includes public addresses and letters.
BRA2052
Johann Hasenberg attacked Katharina von Bora in this publication addressed to Martin Luther. Included are woodcuts that depict Martin Luther and his wife proceeding to the gates of hell.
05896
One of Haywood's most influential publications was The Female Spectator (1744–1746), the first periodical for women that was written by a woman. In this work she adopted the identities of four "contributors". The essays cover a wide variety of…
BRA2051
Publication by Joachim von der Heiden urging Katharina von Bora to repent and return to her monastic seclusion. This came after she escaped from her convent in 1523 and married Martin Luther in 1525.
BRA2124
This 1612 biography of Jeanne d'Arc was compiled by Jean Hordal, a descendant of her brother. Although this work exaggerates Jeanne's military heroics, the engraved title page accurately reproduces the design of the civic monument that was erected in…
AFM4742
This is one of six Latin morality plays modeled on the comedies of Terence, emphasized the virtues of chastity and faith, which made them far more suitable reading material for the nuns than Terence's pagan dramas. Edited by Celtis, this first…
BRB1103
Second volume of published works by Sor Juana including the Primero Sueño, or "First Dream."
Keller Leete Letter
Letter from Helen Keller to Frederick Deland Leete asking for aid for the Helen Keller Committee on the Deaf-Blind of America.
Keller Hughes Letter
Letter from Helen Keller to Reverend Hughes asking for aid in supporting Spanish refugees from fascism.
27884
Optimism, an Essay expresses the author's outlook as a world citizen with minimal discussion of her own physical abilities. The frontispiece is a photograph of the author in academic cap and gown, taken in the year prior to her graduation from…
HV1624.K4 A15 1905x
Keller's most popular and enduring book was The Story of My Life, edited by John Albert Macy (Anne Sullivan's husband). The first two sentences exemplify the sensitivity and beauty of Keller's writing: "It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write…
Kingsford Letter
Letter from Florence Kingsford to Charles H. St John Hornby accepting the offer of illustrating the copies of Song of Songs.
01770
The first blank leaf of this 1686 Boston imprint bears an inscription that reads, "Mary Robinson's book. Given her by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, June 22, 1698." Although nothing more about this Mary Robinson is known, she clearly had a direct…
BRA1654
One of More's "Cheap Repository Tracts," the facetious title momentarily conceals More's effort to discourage London's poor from risking their money in games of chance. The moralizing text tells the story of one John Brown, who after playing the…
ACZ7097
These eight essays offered advice on virtuous behavior, proper conversation, true and false meekness, envy, sentimentality, education, and religion.
AFH9023
This biography presents Suor Domenica da Paradiso as a model for monastic behavior in order to promote her case for saintly canonization. The book's engraved frontispiece offers a lively (albeit imaginary) portrayal of this monastic founder and…
BRB1033
Te Deum laudamus, published by Emily Faithfull with twenty-one chromolithographic plates designed by Esther Faithfull Fleet, catered to the Victorian taste for beautifully decorated books. Each plate in this devotional book features one verse of the…
Palmer Letter
Letter from Phoebe Palmer to Reverend Elias Bowen describing a dream in which she fought with an enormous lion that questioned her faith. She discusses criticism from Reverend Hiram Mattison and how her God-given strength will allow her to sustain…
05908
Collection of short stories similar to parables about highlighting every day with the word of God.
10480
Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood in French, with wood-engraved illustrations by Esther and Lucien Pissarro. Printed in sequence, distinct blocks for different colors provided the black outlines, the gray-green shading, and the decorative…
02725
A compilation of poems by famed poet Katherine Philips who often signed her work as "Orinda", a classical pseudonym.
BRB1254
This edition of the Canon of the Mass for the use of bishops includes fourteen plates by Suor Isabella Piccini.
10201
This copy of the book of Ecclesiastes was bound by Katherine Adams, one of the most accomplished English book binders of the early twentieth centuries. She bound this title for Charles H. St. John Hornby, Ashendene Press, and included his coat of…
BRB0078
This commentary on St. Teresa's "seven dwelling places" from The Interior Castle is illustrated with fifteen allegorical engravings. The first of these images portrays St. Teresa and the seven dwelling places: the lowest room is where the sinner…
BRA2832
America's first secular cantata. Crosby wrote the libretto to music composed for female voices by George F. Root, an instructor at the New York Institution for the Blind who later attained fame for his Civil War songs. The success from this work…
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