Carrie Chapman Catt’s Book, with editor’s letter promoting the “Co-Workers Edition”

“The gates to political enfranchisement have swung open. The women are inside.”

When Young wrote this letter, Catt was in Europe promoting the cause of woman suffrage. A few weeks after the date of this letter, Catt was introduced to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, whom she confronted about the issue. More than one thousand delegates met at the International Women’s Congress in Rome in May 1923. Mussolini attended the opening meeting and declared that his government would grant the vote to several classes of women.

★ ROSE YOUNG, Typed Letter Signed, March 15, 1923, to Bertha Baur, New York, NY. On colorful illustrated “The Woman Citizen” letterhead. 1 p., 8 ⅜ x 10 ¾ in.  #25601.01 ★ With: Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement Book