The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison. With a Biographical Sketch, List of Portraits, Bibliography and Chronology. (Presentation copy, inscribed by Francis Jackson Garrison.)

GARRISON, William Lloyd (1805-1879); GARRISON, Francis Jackson (1848-1916):

Verlag: Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905., 1905

Beschreibung

x, 1 leaf, 137, [1] pp. Original cloth, top edge gilt. Extremities rubbed, else Very Good. Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf: 'E.[?]W./With regret, apology, &/gratitude, from her displacer/F.J.G.'. 'Garrison's son, also named William Lloyd Garrison (1838 1909), was a prominent advocate of the single tax, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. A second son, Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840 1907), was literary editor of the New York Nation from 1865 to 1906. Two other sons (George Thompson Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, his biographer) and a daughter, Helen Frances Garrison (who married Henry Villard), survived him. Fanny's son Oswald Garrison Villard was a prominent journalist and a founding member of the NAACP. Honoring Garrison's 200th birthday, in December 2005 his descendants gathered in Boston for the first family reunion in about a century. They discussed the legacy and impact of their most notable family member' (Wikipedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19894

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Titel: The Words of Garrison: A Centennial ...

Verlag: Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1905

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition