1860 1ed Heroines of Domestic Life FEMINISM Ruth Pocahontas Florence Nightingale



An exceptionally rare and scarcely printed first edition of the 19th-century domestic treatise, Heroines of Domestic Life. Less than 100 recorded copies of this work are known to exist, all of which are archived in libraries and thus unavailable for independent ownership.



Written by Emily Owen under the title of “Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen,” this antebellum treatise describes the heroics, strength, abilities, and skills of iconic women amidst incredible circumstances throughout history and is accompanied by their depictions across 8 exceptional color plates. Contents describe the heroics of 22 women that include Ruth, Antigone, Panthea, Eponina, Gertrud von Wart, Margaret Roper, Anne Askew, Jeanne DAlbret, Pocahontas, Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Rachel Russell, Grizel Cochrane, Winifred Countess of Nithsdale, Helen Walker, Flora Macdonald, Louise Schepler, Emilie de Lavalette, Elizabeth Fry, Prasca Loupouloff, Sarah Martin, Grace Darling, and Florence Nightingale.



In her own words Owen writes,

“Any virtue elicited by a great event, becomes, ipso facto, matter of history, and therefore celebrated; yet this does not invalidate its claim to be essentially domestic. Feminine heroism comprehends those elements which make better wives, mothers and daughters; and if circumstances reveal such characteristics as devotion, fidelity, piety, unselfishness, in their highest culmination, we can no more ignore them…domestic heroism desires not fame, which is alien to its very nature, yet becomes of public import, as its unassuming virtue spreads from the cottage to the throne, cheers the home or the hospital, and alleviates even the scaffold and the [jail].”



Item number: #40608

Price: $499



OWEN, Mrs. Octavius Freire; [OWEN, Emily]



Heroines of Domestic Life



London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [c 1860]. First edition, first printing.



Details:

Collation: Complete

xii, 403, [1]

8 color plates

Provenance: Bookplate – Lois Sanders

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Decorative light blue cloth

Prize binding

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)



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