How We Are Governed
Boston, Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Co. 1885. [4], 5-423, [1] pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titling and debossed wave pattern in black ink. Previous owner's name (J. V. Hannrd?) and date (Sept '92) on front flyleaf with initials at head of title pages. A bright clean copy with minor spotting to the page edges and a few pages with foxing internally. Corner tips worn, scratch to rear panel, spine still bright. A much nicer copy than usually found. Near Fine. Cloth. [29414]
"Anna Laurens Dawes (May 14, 1851 – September 25, 1938) was an American author and anti-suffragist.She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816 – February 5, 1903), a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.
Dawes created the Wednesday Morning Club in 1879 and was its president for sixty years. She later became a trustee of Smith College (1889–1896). In 1883, she secured governmental aid for the Leif exposition to search for Major General A. W. Greely, who had been missing in the Arctic for three years. Dawes served on the board of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892–1894, as well as the St. Louis Exposition of 1902–1904.
Notable works include How We are Governed (1885), The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future (1886), A United States Prison (1886), An Unknown Nation (1888), Charles Sumner (1892), and The Indian as Citizen (1917)." (Wikipedia)
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