Papa's Own Girl
- New York: Published by John P. Jewett, 1874
New York: Published by John P. Jewett, 1874. Very Good -. New York: Published by John P. Jewett, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 547 pp. Publisher's decorative boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards roughly worn with fraying, short tears, and brief exposure to extremities, general chewing and scuffing. Many gatherings sprung and one attached by a single thread, front board gives a little but binding otherwise holding and pages unmarked. A Good to Very Good copy.
Enormously popular and influential utopian novel at time of publication, now mostly forgotten. The author Marie Howland (1836-1921) drew upon her own experiences working as a child cotton mill worker, teaching in Five Points, Manhattan, and living in a Fourierist community in France to write this work, a withering critique of class and gender norms in mid 19th-century America. Howland's radical ideas - communitarianism, socializing domestic work, and economic independence for women - struck a chord with a public weary of the industrial order. Though nearly forgotten today, the novel was still influential nearly twenty years after its publication, Elizabeth Cady Stanton remarking that she "would rather be the author of Papa’s Own Girl than the mother of half the children of America” (Woman’s Tribune, May 1892). An important utopian feminist text, today quite scarce in retail.
WRIGHT 1290; BUHLE 101.
Enormously popular and influential utopian novel at time of publication, now mostly forgotten. The author Marie Howland (1836-1921) drew upon her own experiences working as a child cotton mill worker, teaching in Five Points, Manhattan, and living in a Fourierist community in France to write this work, a withering critique of class and gender norms in mid 19th-century America. Howland's radical ideas - communitarianism, socializing domestic work, and economic independence for women - struck a chord with a public weary of the industrial order. Though nearly forgotten today, the novel was still influential nearly twenty years after its publication, Elizabeth Cady Stanton remarking that she "would rather be the author of Papa’s Own Girl than the mother of half the children of America” (Woman’s Tribune, May 1892). An important utopian feminist text, today quite scarce in retail.
WRIGHT 1290; BUHLE 101.