1894 ELIZA BURT GAMBLE. Woman Proved Superior to Man by Darwinian Evolution. Important Feminist Work. John Wesley in the late 1830s

in the late 1830s

or to render it efficacious upon men’s souls

In addition to the poems of Phillis Wheatley

Finney is specifically the target of the present work

As both a prominent divine in his own right and as a primary influence on the literary output and life of Emily Dickinson

1894 ELIZA BURT GAMBLE. Woman Proved Superior to Man by Darwinian Evolution. Important Feminist Work. John Wesley in the late 1830sNot seen at auction since 1977 and no copies on the market at the time of cataloguing, the present is a superbly preserved first edition of Eliza Burt Gamble's influential feminist manifesto. Gamble, Eliza Burt. The Evolution of Woman. An Inquiry into the Dogma of Her Inferiority to Man. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press. 1894. First Edition. 356pp. In 1894, Eliza Burt Gamble published The Evolution of Woman, as a feminist