Christine: or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs
New York: De Witt and Davenport, Publishers, 1856.
First edition. 384 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dark blue coated endpapers. Very Good with worn tips exposing boards, rubbing, a little foxing to endpapers, mostly erased former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, hinges a little free. Rare.
A feminist novel that has been called "the Jane Eyre of women's rights fiction," and yet was not reprinted until recently. It explicitly parallels the bondage of women and of slaves, as well as the movements of feminism and abolitionism, with a rare frankness for popular fiction its day. The author wound up acquiring Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's trailblazing feminist periodical Revolution.
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