[FEMINISM]. Marie GOEGG (Geneva 1826-1899), Swiss feminist a - Lot 693

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[FEMINISM]. Marie GOEGG (Geneva 1826-1899), Swiss feminist a - Lot 693
[FEMINISM]. Marie GOEGG (Geneva 1826-1899), Swiss feminist and abolitionist activist, founder of the International Association of Women. 2 autograph letters signed, one with embossed letterhead "Association Internationale des Femmes - Comité Central". 6 pp. in-8. Geneva and Thiergarten, June-July 1869. Traces of tab on one side. Superb letters on her action in favor of women's rights, after the reception of her correspondent's feminist work. "I am all the more anxious to read it as your letter gives me proof that you embrace all the questions advanced, and that I am glad to find in you a valuable support for our "International Association of Women." As you say so well in your letter, Madam, it is very necessary that thinking women all rally around the common goal []. One of the excellent sides of our international association of women is to unite and confuse particular interests to rise above parties and personalities []". "I can come to thank you for the moments of real pleasure that I have experienced in seeing how many ideas we have in common. I do not mean to say, however, that we agree in all things; on the contrary, there are very marked nuances in our mutual desire for progress, but apart from this diversity of view in the details, a diversity which is probably due to the environment in which we both live, we agree on all the main points, and on the substance of things, and I admire the lucidity of observation with which you approach and treat all subjects. She has just read with dismay the critical article on her book by Angélique Arnaud published in Le Droit des Femmes [a feminist journal founded that same year, 1869]. "The blame exceeds the praise whereas it is the latter which should have dominated. It focuses on an expression which surprised me too, it is true, I must admit, that concerning the homage paid to the Duchess of Orleans, but which, in my opinion, is redeemed by your last paragraph where you proclaim highly that the true happy solution is found in the universal republic! [] It is also blameworthy for a republican to envelop without exception in blind reprobation all those whom chance brings into the ranks of the oppressors []. Let us create a new society from which disdain and exclusivism are banished and which is based instead on complete justice and benevolence towards all creatures. There are hints in Mrs. A. Arnaud's article that I don't understand, you have to live in Paris to know the ropes, but I prefer to keep my ignorance and continue to judge facts and works by means of my personal appreciation and not through the "they say" of society. In short, your book can be of enormous service and I want you to spread it by the thousands. The misfortune is that serious books, preaching new doctrines that displease the crowd, are hardly read by anyone but the converted. However, so many people have been converted to our idea in the last year that I have good hopes for the following years.
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