Buy this book on-line Mary Alice Gatling, Society Lady & Writer : 1896 1908 SOUTHERN SCRAPBOOK FULL CLIPPINGS STORIES BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA PACKED
--'A Southern Lady's Scrapbook, made by MARY ALICE GATLING'-- cut & pasted news-clippings of civic events & society life in Birmingham, Alabama, 1896-1919. Mary Alice Gatling was a published author, lecturer for womens' organizations, member of the DAR; she favored prohibition and women's suffrage, and was described as 'the only woman paragrapher [editorial page writer] in the South'. Miss Gatling's 'Scrapbook' is packed: (136) pages of news stories on women's suffrage/ the 1919 women's right to vote/ articles about Confederate veterans (several on the 1908 death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee)/ Presbyterian Church news/ a program for the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, that opened in 1885 to teach Mississippi women only, and drew immediate controversy over the question of whether to teach poor girls liberal arts or just job skills/ news articles by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, an editor at Tennessee newspaper, the 'Memphis Commercial Appeal'. There are formal social invitation cards for Miss Gatling and her family sprinkled through the album. In good condition, 7.5" x 10".. Scrapbook. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Mary Alice Gatling, Society Lady & Writer : 1896 1908 SOUTHERN SCRAPBOOK FULL CLIPPINGS STORIES BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA PACKED. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres d'occasion, used books, rare books and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |