In Her Own Words

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74 GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins, & Dan Smith (illus.) Which Way Are Women Going? Newspaper Feature Service, [1920] Single leaf original lithographed pictorial broadside (sheet size: 210 × 160 mm), offset printed in colours on medium-weight stock to recto only, text printed in two columns, headlined “America’s Leading Feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Says That the ‘Woman Question’ Is Not One of Sex but of Economics, and That ‘a Free Wife Is a Better Lover Than a Slave Wife’”, with

a black and white photographic portrait of Gilman to the left. Elaborate bor- der design by Dan Smith, depicting a powerful female angel with her arm around a young girl in the foreground and a line of well-dressed women as- cending the heights of a mountain into the clouds in the background. Mild wear and a few tiny nicks and creases to extremities, the upper left corner discreetly reinforced on verso, upper margin faintly soiled, central horizon- tal fold with 23 mm closed tear along right edge, three areas of scattered marking on verso with no bleed-through, overall in very good condition, the colours bright and unfaded.

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