Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement: The Biography of an Insurgent Woman (Gender in History series)

First edition. xv, 280pp, with occasional illustrations in text. In red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends, and a couple of small and mild marks on front panel. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated, laminated dust jacket, very slightly rubbed on corners and mild compression impressions around spine. The first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918), who was known among her contemporaries as 'the grey matter in the brain' of late-Victorian feminism. A controversial figure and colourful character, she was the first women to speak out in a public platform about marital rape.