Autobiography of an Elderly Woman

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original terracotta cloth lettered in black and gilt; [6],269,[11](ads)pp. Spine ends a touch rubbed, some light foxing throughout, else Very Good or better. Anonymously published work by labor activist and Rideout novelist Mary Heaton Vorse. Better known for her political activism in favor of such diverse causes as women's suffrage, civil rights, pacifism, and socialism. This novel, published shortly after the death of her first husband, is "an anecdotal and entertaining narrative...told from the point of view of a woman [Vorse's] mother's age who resents the circumscriptions youth imposes on the aged" (American Women Writers IV, p. 306).