[Female suffrage; printed anti-feminist pamphlet.] Woman: And Her Failings.

Author: 
Henry Tyrrell [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Published by Holyoake & Co., 147, Fleet Street. 1857. [John Watts, Printer, 147, Fleet Street.]
£150.00
SKU: 16153

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Tyrrell's attitude is patronising, to say the least. 'It is not that our girls and young women are uneducated; the mischief consists in the fatal fact that they are over-educated, as the word is understood, or misunderstood, by those who have the charge of them. [...] I mention Harriet Martineau as one whose broad intellect, undaunted courage, and untiring patience, in the promotion of truth, half redeems [sic] the follies and weaknesses of her sex.' Women's 'failings' he classes under three heads: 'Habitual Selfishness', 'A Stolid Superstition' and 'A Blind Toryism'. Three copies on COPAC, and one more on OCLC WorldCat.