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Veit-Wild, Flora,Biblio.com

They Called You Dambudzo

Tuttle Austin, Flora E (1859-1943)Biblio.com

HOLOGRAPHIC DIARIES OF A PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN

77467Two handwritten diaries kept in 1941-42 by Pennsylvania resident Flora E. Austin Tuttle who was widely read and kept abreast of important world events with special attention to developing war news. In 1941 Tuttle was 82 years old and living with her daughter Helen and son-in-law Jack at their home in Sharon Pennsylvania. Jack worked for Westinghouse while Helen was a housewife. Tuttle writes in her diaries nearly every day and often remarks on current events the weather family and friends and her general health which is faltering. She receives most of her information from newspapers such as the Chardon Republic Ohio as well as radio reports and some magazines. Born in Montville Ohio she lived most of her life in the small township of Huntsburg Ohio with her late husband Arthur who owned a dairy farm. She moved to Sharon spending the last six years of her life with her only daughter. During her lifetime Tuttle saw many changes in the world so the focus of her diary note on January 4 1941 about the make-up of the new Congress is of little surprise: "Of the 500 congressmen who answered 'here' at the opening session yesterday eight were women two of the eight were 65 years old. The newest comer is the widow of Chester Bolton is 55 years. She represents the 22 district of Ohio. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas first and only woman elected to the U.S. Senate." On Tuesday March 11 Tuttle wrote: "The lend lease bill passed last night. Seems to be known the world over Britain is happy this country is coming to her aid. We get Liberty magazine to read. The late Ambassador Dodd's diary says Nazism is like a snake in the grass." On April 15 she mentions listening on the radio to a telecast speech given by Boake Carters a once-popular radio commentator who fell out of popularity for his harsh criticism of the New Deal. "It was on the whole rather humorous" Tuttle wrote of the speech. "His subject 'Whither America.'" On Sunday December 7 1941 she wrote: "The most important thing that has happened is that Japan has commenced to war on some of the U.S. possessions without declaring war." Tuttle opens up her 1942 diary: "At the beginning of this year we find ourselves in war. Self defense is one the first laws of nature. Japs struck at American defenses in the Pacific on Dec. 7. Germany and Italy have since declared war on the U.S. of America." On October 26 1942 she wrote: "We all sat up to hear Wendell Wilkie. He came on the air at 10:30 and spoke over all networks about 40 minutes giving an account of his trip around the world. I was paid for listening." The diaries are bound in full brown buckram 4" x 6". The spines are leaning a touch with some general edgewear. unknown

Johnson Rare Books & Archives · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €

TRISTAN, FloraBiblio.com

Méphis.

1838167701Paris: Ladvocat 1838. The most important French socialist-feminist of the 1830s and 1840s Second edition published the same year as the first of the radical philosopher's only novel vividly articulating her goal of social revolution through female emancipation. Méphis is uncommonly met with; we trace only one previous auction listing for any edition. The philosophy of Flora Tristan 1803-1844 linked the nascent socialist theories of class struggles with the contested position of women in contemporary society. Following the mixed reception of her previous political works in Méphis she employs the conventions of the novel to visualise her conception of social reform. The work centres on the titular protagonist's relationships with two aristocratic women and the tensions implicit therein - both in his proletariat origins and in the broader patriarchal conventions weighing on them. Tristan draws several "vivid evocations of feminist role models" Cross & Gray p. 2 thereby winning the novel "a secure place in French Romantic literature" Puech quoted in Cross & Gray p. 2. The work gained further notoriety due to the events surrounding its publication. In 1838 Tristan's estranged husband - a failed artist enraged by her literary success - shot her in the street in broad daylight. Miraculously she was not seriously injured and the resulting trial boosted her sales considerably. Tristan's socialist-feminist philosophy anticipates several aspects of Marx and Engels: she most notably coined the term "Workers of the world unite" a full five years before they deployed it in the Communist Manifesto. She is consequently considered "the most important French socialist-feminist of the 1830s and 1840s" Collins & Weil-Sayre p. 229. The second volume includes two of Tristan's articles on the history of western art which had formerly appeared in L'Artiste. 2 vols octavo 209 x 131 mm pp. iv vii 1 365 1; pp. iv 390 2. Wood-engraved vignette to title pages. Contemporary red quarter sheep spines lettered ruled and elaborately decorated in gilt red marbled sides marbled endpapers edges sprinkled black blue silk bookmarkers. Moderate rubbing faint sunning to spines light sporadic foxing and marginal damp staining to contents: a very good copy. Marie M. Collins and Sylvie Weil-Sayre "Flora Tristan: Forgotten Feminist and Socialist" Nineteenth-Century French Studies vol. 1 no. 4 1973; Màire Cross and Tim Gray The Feminism of Flora Tristan 1992. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni4 500,00 £GB≈ 5 138,10 €