The Peak in Darien, with Some Other Inquires Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body. An Octave of Essays

Boston, Massachusetts: Geo. H. Ellis, 1882. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Minor loss to spine base, board corners bumped, minor pencil marginalia. 1882 Hard Cover. 266 pp. Author was a suffragette and feminist social reformer who founded the National Anti-Vivisection Society and other animal rights groups. This essay collection included discussion of women's and animal rights, and other topics. CONTENTS: Magnanimous Atheism; Hygeiolatry; Pessimism, and One of Its Professors; Zoophily; Sacrificial Medicine; The Fitness of Women for the Ministry of Religion; The House on the Shore of Eternity; The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death.