[Feminist Literature]. Hunter, Martha Lavina [1868 - 1962] — FAR PLACES

Dallas: The Kaleidoscope Publishers, 1931. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from the author to her grandson, Edwin Richmond. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. 99, [1 (blank)] pp. Laid in: [1] Cabinet card photograph [Simon, New Orleans] of Hunter's husband, James A. Hunter [1843 - 1922], a Dallas physician. Annotated "Dr James Albert Hunter / Your Grand father"' [2] 2 page ALs [newsy, family matters], dated 1930, from Rev. Edwin G. Hunter [brother to James] to Martha; 70 lines, ~ 625 words. [3] 9 newspaper clippings, 7 of which relate to Martha & her family's activities, including one from the Oak Cliff Tribune, dated Janury 14, 1954, awarding Martha "Woman of the Week". 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Cloth & gilt dull. Very Good. Martha Hunter a well-known early 20th C. Dallas writer & poet, as well as supporter of feminist causes. In 1906, she became a founding member of the Dallas Women's Forum - the first women's club in Dallas. She is credited with naming the organization, and subsequently authored "A Quarter of a Century of the Dallas Women's Forum." More than just a social club, the club was responsible for seeing enacted the first pure food law adopted by the city of Dallas, as well as organizing the Council of Mothers, a forerunner of the Parent Teacher's Association [Dallas Women's Forum, First Hundred Years]. Hunter did not confine her activities soley to the Women's Forum, she was also active in the Women's Chamber of Commerce, the Dallas Federation of Women's Club, the Dallas Pen Women, the United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter No. 6 and a member of the Poetry Society of America. A volume of Hunter's poetry, this an ncommon piece of woman's literature; at the time of cataloguing, we find no other copies offered on the market.