![[Item #50010] A Sermon of the Public Function of Woman, Preached at the Music Hall, March 27, 1853. Theodore PARKER.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50010.jpg?auto=webp&v=1593578449)
A Sermon of the Public Function of Woman, Preached at the Music Hall, March 27, 1853
Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1853. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 20pp. Significant biopredation to upper cover and first five leaves though never touching text, else Good and fresh. "Phonographically reported by J.M.W. Yerrinton and Rufus Leighton" (upper cover and title page).
Important sermon by the abolitionist Unitarian minister, whose orations converted many of his listeners, among them Julia Ward Howe, to the cause, and Parker numbered among those who secretly funded John Brown (anb.org). From the Preface: "The following Sermon is part of a long course of Sermons on the Spiritual Development of the Human Race," divided into four chapters. Of the woman in the public sphere Parker argues "woman has the same natural rights as a man...Then she has the same right to Freedom of Industry that man has" (p. 13). KRICHMAR 867.
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