Authors night at Dalton Book Store with Rita Mae Brown and Swimmer Diana Nyad (right)

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Commonplace book, October 29, 1728-January 15, 1735

The small hardcover volume contains excerpts copied by John Winthrop beginning at the age of thirteen as a freshman at Harvard College. Winthrop’s own description of this book as “a book of Extracts from many Authors” is accurate, as it includes neither personal information about Winthrop nor reflections on what he read. With the exception of occasional notations indicating the date he finished reading particular books, the volume consists of passages he copied from a wide range of sources. It begins with an index of the various sections of the book (History, Poetry, Miscellanies, Geography, Divinity, History, Philosophy, Philosophy, Miscellanies, Poetry, Divinity, Philosophy) and ends with an index of the extracts' authors.

Tatyana Mamonova holding her underground unpublished book on Russian Women and feminism

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Florence Rush, writer of a recent book on incest, at Pornography and Self-image Meeting

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Pat Moore poses with her book

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Phyllis Chesler, author of "Women and Madness" reads from her new book at Dalton Book Store

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Writer Shere Hite, author of "Hite Report" and new book "Women and Love"

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Writer Shere Hite, author of "Hite Report" and new book "Women and Love"

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Writer Shere Hite, author of "Hite Report" and new book "Women and Love"

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Writer Shere Hite, author of "Hite Report" and new book "Women and Love"

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Lynda Schor (second from right) reads from her book "Appetites" at the Woman's Salon

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].