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1 leaf, 122 pp, 1 leaf of notices of the book. Original cloth. Small piece missing at top of spine. Both covers very stained. Pages lightly stained in blank vertical and bottom margins. Title page very browned. Fair. Czech translation of Elizabeth Blackwell's book Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of Their Children. OCLC locates copies in these US libraries: New York Public, Nebraska, and in only 2 libraries in Czechia. Elizabeth Blackwell writes about the origin of her book: "My enlarging experience in various countries in respect to the relations between men and women--the customs, the diseases, the social disaster springing from errors as to human physiology and neglect in education with regard to the most important functions--showed me the imperative work which devolved upon the physician in this matter. . . . I meditated on the duty of the physician, and finally wrote the small work, 'Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of their Children.' So little at that time was the importance of sexual education understood, and the necessity of its consideration accepted, that when I read my manuscript to a warm and enlightened English friend staying at Mentone, she assured me that if I published that manuscript my 'name would be a forbidden word in England.' I sent the manuscript, however, to about twelve of the leading London publishers, who all declined the publication. I therefore printed a small edition myself, which a bookseller consented to keep on sale. A copy of this little book fell under the notice of Miss Ellice Hopkins, who, considering that it would be useful in the special work in which she was engaged, induced Mr. Hudson, the then acting member of the firm of Hatchard & Co., to reconsider the matter and publish the book for her use. The arrangement was made and the book printed; but soon after I received a letter saying that though the firm had never yet broken faith with an author, yet they feared they must do so now; for the senior member of the firm. Bishop Hatchard's widow, had seen the proof of the book, thrown it into the fire, and desired that its publication should be stopped! Finally, a little consultation of elderly clergymen was called to consider the subject, and it was at last resolved that if the name of the work could be changed, and the distinct announcement made in the title that it was a medical as well as a moral work, the publication might be continued. Of course the change was made, and 'Counsel to Parents' became 'The Moral Education of the Young, considered under Medical and Social Aspects' " (Blackwell, Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, pp. 251-52). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17291
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