Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston

Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston
Author: John Sargent
Publisher: Blumenfeld Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2008-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408672308

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Galahad in the Gilded Age:

Galahad in the Gilded Age:
Author: Linda Dowling
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1664153934

Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing young man from a socially prominent family. His life would change dramatically after four years traveling in Europe and the Levant, from which he returned to find himself a literary celebrity—“the Howadji”—following the appearance of two books describing his Middle East experiences that some considered so provocatively sensuous as to border on obscenity. Yet during this early celebrity, Curtis would find his life changing profoundly—discovering marital happiness, facing financial bankruptcy and finding himself irresistibly drawn into increasingly bitter controversies: the national battle against slavery, against wide-spreading political corruption, and against what Curtis regarded as a wholly unreasonable resistance to granting women the right to vote. George William Curtis, a contemporary would conclude after his death, was “the best knight of our time.”

Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896
Author: Ira Vernon Brown
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780945636205

This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's rights movements from 1848 to 1892, her eightieth year.