Through High Windows.
London: Curtis and Davison, [Chiswick Press,], 1911. First edition. The present collection features three poems related to women’s rights: “Woman,” “Woman’s Plea for Suffrage,” and “Woman’s Song of Freedom” (pp. 32-39). Binding is firm and tight despite slight cracking to front joint. Light toning and edgewear to boards. Some foxing and toning to endpapers. Inscribed by the author to a Mrs. [Eva] Fowler, dated Christmas 1911, and with the bookplate of Alfred Fowler to front pastedown. A very good copy, and an interesting association. Original olive paper covered boards with gilt title. Top edge gilt. Small quarto (5 ” x 6 ”). 39 pp. Item #17508
Lilian Galsworthy Sauter (1864 – 1924) was a suffragist and the sister of the novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. Through High Windows appears to be her only published work.
The London home of Eva Neumann Fowler (c. 1872 – 1921) and the architect Alfred Mountain Fowler (1837 – 1914) was the gathering place of a wide circle of artists and writers, including John Singer Sargent and, presumably, the author of the present work.
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