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DIXIE, Florence, Lady.
Aniwee; or, The Warrior Queen.
A Tale of the Araucanian Indians and the Mythical Trauco People.
First edition. Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905) was a travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist. She became famous in 1780 with the publication of Across Patagonia, based on her six month trek through South America. Shortly thereafter she was appointed the Morning Post's correspondent for the Anglo-Zulu War. An independent and adventurous woman, Dixie campaigned intensively for women's emancipation. "Her aims ranged from the reform of female attire to that of the royal succession law… She desired the emendation of the marriage service and the divorce laws so as to place man and woman on the same level" (ODNB). Ainwee, set among the native people of South America, is one of several feminist children's books that Dixie published in the 1890s.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, floral pattern to spine and upper board in black, maroon endpapers. Frontispiece. Prize bookplate to front pastedown with minor adhesive transfer to opposite page. Binding a little rubbed and marked, front hinge cracked, short closed tear to page 183, small area of dampstain to rear endpapers. A very good copy.
