Bard

1927 · ref. 22914 — New York: William Edwin Rudge 1927. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For May Hartman from her friend Sara Bard Field Christmas 1927". Linen cloth spine over red & cream marbled paper covered boards. A fine copy. Sara Bard Field 1882 – 1974 was an American poet orator suffragist socialist and free love advocate. She became involved in the national movement for women's suffrage and became a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's Congressional Union and later the National Woman's Party. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition or World's Fair in San Francisco where suffragist leader Alice Paul selected Field and California suffragist Frances Jolliffe to drive across the country to hand-deliver to President Woodrow Wilson a petition of signatures gathered demanding a federal suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In her late 20s' Bard began a life-long love affair with Charles Erskine Scott Wood a Portland cultural icon and they eventually married and settle in Los Gatos California in their small villa they called “The Cats” designed by Walter Steilberg. There they wrote entertained and lived a life of “gilded bohemianism.” They counted among their friends Robinson Jeffers Ansel Adams John Steinbeck Langston Hughes and Lincoln Steffens. Field was close with Jeffer's wife Una. She turned to poetry in her middle years "The Pale Woman and Other Poems" being her first title published. William Edwin Rudge unknown