Antique First Ed. Book A NEW ATMOSPHERE by Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) | First Edition - Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1865 | Hardcover leather bound book with gold gilt lettering to ribbed spine. 8vo. (page of publisher's advertisements), [2], 310, [4] pp. Title page in red and black. Mary Abigail Dodge grew up in an upper-middle class New England household. She believed women ought to receive equal educational and employment opportunities as men. She argued for a reduction in the expected domestic duties of a woman. Dodge was also an abolitionist and a supporter of the Civil War. However, she did not support women's suffrage.