Female Filosofy. Fished Out and Fried

Softcover 16mo, 108pp. One plate illustration opposite the preface, with the text: "Ladies and Gentlemen, She's Nothing But A Woman." Good+: cover is detached and suffers a loss to the bottom edge that affects the printed border (not text), loss to spine covering and chipping to corners. Textblock is Very Good with a receding tidemark at the top edge of the first few leaves after a stain on the title page. Inner wrap advertises job printing by the publisher, as well as a "family weekly" with a WCTU section.

A heavily tongue-in-cheek walk through the state of Women’s Suffrage and popular objections to women voting—from the polls being an unfit place, to women being too dumb, or that "only bad women will vote." One section is attributed to Lucy Stone ("The Gains of Forty Years," p82); a poem on the last page is after Rebecca Hazard ("Give Mothers the Vote").

A rare West Virginia imprint that pre-dates an expanded 336-page version copyright by Rev. L. E. Keith—the longer version cites the National Convention of the Republican Leagues in June 1894, and the cover of this volume indicates February 1894. The section "Equal Suffrage is Coming" (p58) offers examples of progress, noting Colorado and Wyoming as leading the way, and cites resolutions passed in 1893.