For Hearth and Home
Subtitle: a Ladies' Manual of Direct Action
By: by Melissa J. Frost
Publisher: the author
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Brooklyn, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Women; Suffrage; History; Direct action
Description: Melissa J. Frost compiles a chronology of the efforts of the Women's Social and Political Union (WPSU) from 1904 to 1914, excerpted from Andrew Rosen's Rise Up, Women! The events include the suffragists' first action at a city hall meeting to the arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst; the zine also contains information about acts of violence and hunger strikes on the behalf of the protestors. The original print run was 30 color copies, made for a women's colloquium, and the next run of 50 was printed for the NY Art Book Fair.
Notes: Initial print run of 30 for the 1st annual Women's Colloquium. 2nd print run of 50 for the NY Art Book Fair.

Gift of  author, via Shannon O'Neill, donated in 2014.

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