London: Methuen, (1927).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition thus, a re-issue of the second edition with a new appendix. Near fine, lacking the scarce dustjacket. Inscribed by the author: "Dr. Ray McAfee from a grateful friend, Mary Mills Patrick. May, 1928." A book that attempts to place the poetess Sappho in the context of her historical surroundings. Patrick was a feminist educator and the founder of the Constantinople Woman's College, which became the leading center for higher education for women in Turkey. She managed to keep it open through the Balkan Wars, the Turkish Revolution, and World War I. She firmly believed in and advocated the equality of nations, the equality of the sexes, and higher education for women.
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