Heading: (American Woman’s Poetry - 1839 “Printed but unpublished” )
Author: Cutter, Hannah
Title: The Ologies- humorous verse by an early woman educator
Place Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts
Publisher:Register Press
Date Published: 1839
Description:

In plain wrappers, as issued, with title handwritten on front wrapper. 23pp. 4 x 6 ins. including 4-pg. appendix listing 113 words ending in "ology", from Adenology (science of glands) to Zoophitology ("treats of Zoophytes").

Humorous verse - and an inadvertent tribute to early women's education - written anonymously by 32 year-old Hannah Cutter, "assistant preceptress" at Ipswich Academy, a Seminary for women teachers in Massachusetts. (See also the related listing above of two early Ipswich Seminary imprints) A woman "of sterling worth and masculine energy, of uncommon literary attainments", she later married Rev. Robert Breeze, with whom she moved to Illinois, where she continued her teaching. At the end of the poem, she includes a request that "no one would take the liberty of publishing it", "a few copies" being "printed to save the labor of transcribing." WorldCat locates only four copies of the original, at Yale, Brown and two other institutions.

Some edge and binding wear otherwise very good