Description

Description: Suffragist Mary Livermore boldly signed in full after the sentiment “Yours very truly, / Mary A. Livermore / Melrose, Mass./ Oct.2, 1894” on a 2 ¾” x 4” card.

Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, an advocate of women’s rights and Civil War aide, and the founder and, later, president, of the Massachusetts Women’s Suffrage Association. In 1869, she founded and edited “The Agitator” which later merged with the “Woman’s Journal” founded by the suffragist Lucy Stone.

Item #A02040

Condition: Remnants of mounting on verso, otherwise very good condition.