Sakade, FlorenceBiblio.com
Seabury, Florence GuyBiblio.com
The Delicatessen Husband and other essays
1926réf. 26761New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. c.1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. original orange cloth with front-cover illustration; no dust jacket light external soiling modest wear to extremities except for heavy wear to bottom right corner of front cover board exposed front hinge a bit weak. cartoon drawings Humorous pieces with a serious edge or maybe vice versa highlighting "the plight of men nowadays i.e. the 1920s due to the new status of women. Life has changed for men since the time when the whole world was neatly divided into masculine and feminine spheres. The one hundred per cent HE of the Victorian era has passed and to keep pace with the feminine revolution men must find a new pattern of masculinity." At casual glance this book might look like it belongs on the Humor shelf but Mrs. Seabury wasn't exactly kidding around: an active journalist and suffragist she was a member of the Greenwich Village-based radical feminist debating society Heterodoxy was editor for several years during the 1910s of a magazine called "The Woman Voter" and wrote extensively on what today would be called "gender issues." Most possibly all of the 23 essays in this volume had appeared in such periodicals as Harper's McCall's and The New Republic. . Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
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