CLAY, [Virginia], Mrs.

Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Socia

Item #53071

CLAY, [Virginia], Mrs. Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South 1853-1866. Put into Narrative form by Ada Sterling. New York: Doubleday & Page, 1905. 2nd ed. 386pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. pictorial cloth. Spine ends very slightly rubbed, presentation inscription (to Mary E. Sloan from C.A.S.) on front free endpaper, else a fine, bright copy. Mary Elizabeth Sloan was the author of an 1894 feminist tract entitled Social Evil. Mrs. Clay was a pioneer in the fight for women's rights in the South and the president of the Alabama Equal Suffrage League. "Descriptive largely of wartime life in Richmond and Macon, with good accounts of shortages and substitutes." Nevins II, p. 185.

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