CREPAZ, Adele. The Emancipation of Women, and its probable consequences. With a letter to the authoress by the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1893
4pp cata. Orig. red cloth, lettered in black & gilt. v.g.
¶First published as Die Gefahren der Frauen-Emancipation in 1892. A counter argument to the women's emancipation movement. Crepaz, 1849-1919, praises the traditional family unit, and outlines the inevitable decline in societal harmony should it be eroded. With a long pencil note on the leading pastedown in a contemporary hand, in which an anonymous critic shows little sympathy with the author's conservative viewpoint: 'It does not do to allow one principle to outweigh every other. We most of us feel that individual liberty is a good thing ...'.