Women's Suffrage

[Women's Suffrage]. Young, Rose. The Record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc.1917-1929. New York: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, 1929. Octavo. Illustrated. Original blue cloth gilt. Light spots to cover, withal a fine bright copy in original glassine which is chipped. First edition, an important association copy, inscribed "To Dear Elizabeth Collier Carrie Chapman Catt June 20th, 1930" . Frank Leslie,a woman who adopted her deceased husband's name upon his death, bequeathed nearly her entire estate to Carrie Chapman Catt, this volume primarily recounts the ensuing pillaging of the estate by various parties... essentially taking half the proceeds, nonetheless a substantial amount remained and funded Ms. Catt's continued activism for women's suffrage.Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt