Kleber, Brooks E; Dale BirdsellBiblio.com
Kleber, Mrs LO L OBiblio.com
The Suffrage Cook Book
1915372084Pittsburgh: The Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania 1915. First Edition. 244pp. 36 portraits. 8vo. Blue pictorial cloth illustrated in black with image of Uncle Sam holding scales weighing men and women as equals covers a bit abraded minor wear at extremities somewhat crude repairs at top and tail of spine repairs at hinges. First Edition. 244pp. 36 portraits. 8vo. A cookbook assembled by a Pittsburgh equal rights organization with a five-page introduction by Pittsburgh journalist Erasmus Wilson. Recipes endorsements and statements regarding woman's suffrage from prominent political social and literary figures including letters from the governors of California Kansas Wyoming and Washington; Jane Addams Mary Roberts Rinehart Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Fanny Garrison Villard film actress Nazimova Judge Ben Lindsay an original poem by John Whitcomb Riley not listed in BAL and recipes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman Irwin Cobb and Jack and Charmain London. London contributes two prose recipes for preparing roast duck which contributions are not listed in the standard London bibliography. Kleber's cookbook is a fine example of the many cookbooks and culinary tractates written during the Suffrage movement that encouraged a radical shift from traditional delicate victuals to wholesome pragmatic and often medicinal meals. The Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania unknown
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