Tilly from Tillamook: Her Temptation and Triumph
Portland, OR: A.E. Kern, 1925.
First edition. 127, [1] pp. Illustrated wraps over staple binding. Near Fine with light wear, a few small notations inside front wrap. The final work by suffragette Virginia Brooks, best-known for her activism in Chicago alongside Ida B. Wells and her two feminist books from this period: Little Lost Sister and My Battles with Vice. Her later life in Portland, Oregon-- then a small lumberjack town-- produced this fictional portrait of a young woman caught up in "white slavery" (i.e. prostitution), a bobbed hairdo, and a whirl of general vice. Her struggle ends happily enough: "Alas, how few Tillys go back to Tillamook!" The copyright page declares: "This book is expressly intended as an expose of law enforcement conditions in Oregon and especially in Portland."
Price: $200.00