Published by The Chautauqua Press, New York, 1889. 225 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth hard cover with gilt lettering to spine.
"Birds through an Opera Glass by Florence A. Merriam, uses narrative prose, the familiar frame of home life, and the decorative illustrations of popular natural history to introduce a largely female audience to birds around the home. "Mr. Robin," as she had named him, was a "domestic bird" whose every action "bespeaks the self-respecting American citizen." She put birds and birdwatching into women's sphere but, by calling for observation and careful records, offered women a way into the public, masculine sphere of science—a path she and her mentor Mabel Osgood Wright followed to became the first female members of the American Ornithological Union."
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