Woman in the Nineteenth Century

The American edition is the true first and the census claim is confirmed. Greeley & McElrath, New York, February 1845 precedes the first English edition, published in London by H. G. Clarke & Co. in the same year — Clarke's London issue followed the New York book and is collected as the first English edition, not as the first. Fuller wrote in English, so there is no original-language precedence question. The text itself is an expansion (by roughly a third) of her essay "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" in The Dial (Boston, July 1843); the Dial appearance is the first printing of the earlier, shorter text, not of this book.