“We thought you might like Grannie’s copy of The Rights of Woman by Mary Woll...something”

“We thought you might like Grannie’s copy of The Rights of Woman by Mary Woll...something”. A thousand times, yes.

My Grannie passed away in January this year, a month away from her 97th birthday. She was a language teacher (who decided to take an A-Level in Russian in her later years because why not?), a fashion buyer, pianist, explorer and keen plantswoman. I only learned after she passed that she had also been an involved member of the Soroptomist International, an organisation for women who work to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. I wish I’d had a chance to talk to my Grannie about her feminism, and I wonder if this book, gifted to her on her 21st birthday might’ve played a part.

This first edition was printed in 1929 and rebound in the mid 1930’s with woodcuts and end papers by Eric Ravilious. At first I thought it might’ve been Enid Marx, another of my favourite Modernist designers, as they both have such a talent for pattern and abstract motif.

It’s an honour to be the guardian of this book now.

This dandelion logo breaks my heart! So delicate and small.