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relationship was treated by friends as both a model for and representative of other same-sex relationships within the home economics movement” (Elias, p. 65). “Following a long political struggle the New York State College of Home Economics was established at Cornell in early 1925 with Van Rensselaer and Rose as codirectors. In the midst of the ongoing battle to create the new college, Van Rensselaer had traveled in 1923 to Belgium, where her work with the American Relief Commission earned her the distinction of chevalier of the Order of the Crown . . . Through drive and determination, [Rensselaer] helped to create a new academic field based on the needs of everyday rural women. A true pioneer, she is commemorated on the Cornell campus by the Martha Van Rensselaer Hall” ( ANB ). The New York State College of Home Economics was later renamed the New York State College of Human Ecology. Octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt and front cover additionally lettered in red, single red and green Glasgow-style rose stamped on spine, matching rose pattern stamped vertically on front cover within a red single line border. With 16 half-tones after photographs, numerous diagrams and in-text illustrations. Spine ends and corners gently bumped and rubbed, book block a touch slanted, contents crisp and clean. A near-fine copy. ¶ Megan J. Elias, “‘Model Mamas’: The Domestic Partnership of Home Economics Pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer”, Journal of the History of Sexuality , vol. 15, no. 1, Jan. 2006. £700 [155034]
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171 VALE PRESS: CHAPMAN, George (trans.); MARLOWE, Christopher. Hero and Leander. London: printed by the Ballantyne Press and sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894 “WHO EVER LOVED, THAT LOVED NOT AT FIRST SIGHT?” First edition thus, one of 220 copies printed, of which 200 were released for trade. This work presents Christopher Marlowe’s 1598 rendering of the romantic mythological legend of Hero and Leander with the contemporary continuation by poet and translator George Chapman. It was one of three productions by Ricketts and Shannon done “at the Vale”, the name of their Chelsea home, before the official establishment of The Vale Press in 1896. The work was produced to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the first printing of Musaeus’s sixth century Greek text of Hero and Leander by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1494. Octavo. Original full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, decoration palm motif designed by Ricketts to spine and covers in gilt,
fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Full-page woodcut title page, woodcut vignettes and initials all by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon. Front board very slightly sprung, gilt bright, coppering in a couple of spots, sporadic light foxing; a near-fine copy. ¶ Ransom 434. £3,000 [154867] 172 VAN RENSSELAER, Martha; Flora Rose; Helen Canon (eds.) A Manual of Home- Making. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919 First edition in book form; a near-fine copy in the striking pictorial cloth. Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose were early American pioneers of home economics, being the first full-time women professors at Cornell University and co-founders of the Cornell School of Home Economics. Their co-writer, Helen Canon, joined Cornell in 1915 to assist with their courses designed for New York State farm homemakers. Van Rensselaer (1864–1932) and Rose (1874–1959) “lived together [and] were so inseparable that they were often referred to collectively as Miss Van Rose. Their
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