The Morality of Woman
Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1911. First edition in English. Hardcover. Slenderr Octavo (5.25" x 8.5"), grey cloth grey cloth lettered in black with publisher's arts and crafts gilt logo on cover. 77pp. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. A small ink stamped "87" on the front free-endpaper. Good or better. Good +. Item #19530
This is one of several works of the of Swedish feminist, suffragist and parenting educator Ellen Keys' translated to English. It was translated by Mamah Borthwick while she was the lover of Frank Lloyd Wright. Borthwick met a tragic death by murder at the hands of a servant while she resided at Taliesin. The publisher, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, was a publisher of Wright's work, and his Alderbrink Press embodied arts and crafts ideals. The Morality of Woman contains essays on the role of women in society in three parts: The Morality of Woman; The Woman of the Future; and The Conventional Woman. "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
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