The Internet Archive has a beautiful digitized copy of the oft-forgotten Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Two Women of the West (1893), a feminist utopian novel set on Mars that was written by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Beyond the novel itself, which is presumably housed in the rare book collection at Perkins Library, Duke University, this copy has several cool attributes, including this creepy
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
19th-century feminist Martian utopian novel affixed with creepy Catholic religious bookplate
The Internet Archive has a beautiful digitized copy of the oft-forgotten Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Two Women of the West (1893), a feminist utopian novel set on Mars that was written by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Beyond the novel itself, which is presumably housed in the rare book collection at Perkins Library, Duke University, this copy has several cool attributes, including this creepy
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Any updates on the origin of the book plate? I found one a few weeks ago: http://imgur.com/lWH9D
ReplyDeleteNo, no updates.
ReplyDeletethe rest of the quote is "and cannot be gathered up again" It is indeed catholic but it if from a time before the reformation. Death is depicted as a Pope holdig authority over both church and state.
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