« Ite Missa est ».

London, Women’s Printing Society, s.d. [1914]. in 8° (115 x 180 mm), broché, couverture muette d’origine, petites taches sur le premier plat. 11 pp., [1 p.].

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Recueil sans titre contenant dix poèmes, le premier intitulé « Ite Missa est » dont l’auteur(e) a seulement signé de ses initiales « A.K.M. ». « Started in 1876, The Women’s Printing Society employed both working- and middle-class Women as printers. Unable to join male-run printing houses because of the restrictions that the London Compositor Unions imposed, the Society created a place for women in the industry by basing their business on a system of shared profits that benefied both employees and investors. These businesses issued one of the first sustainable challenges to gendered hierarchies of work by reforming capitalist business practices in order to provide new opportunities for women workers. » (Tusan « Reforming work : gender, class, and the printing trade in Victorian Britain », in Journal of Womens’s History, 16/1, 2004). Les huit premiers poèmes sont inspirés par la période de Noël, les deux derniers se rapportent à la guerre. TRÈS RARE.