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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge

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The Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge, second edition, printing in 1843.

Sixteenmo, vii, [8]-127pp. Marbled paper boards, cloth backed spine with paper title. Toning and foxing throughout. Frontispiece portrait. Professionally reinforced spine, solid text block. (Sabin 22102) This is the stated second edition of the Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge, with numerous printings of the second edition appearing between 1842 and 1844.

The first edition of the Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge was published in 1838 and was quickly followed up by Elleanor’s Second Book in 1839. Elleanor Eldridge was a free black woman living in the Northern states, whose grandmother was a member of the Native American Narragansett Tribe. An important work on the life of a black woman before the Civil War.

Additional information

Location Published

Providence

Publisher

B.T. Albro

Edition

Second Edition

Date Published

1843

Binding

Boards

Condition

Good

Author

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