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(Feminism), Frances Swiney: 'The Cosmic Procession, or the Feminine Principle in Evolution, Essays of Illumination', London, Ernest Bell, 1906, 1st edition, xii,238,[2]pp, introduction leaf with vertical tape repair to margin, leaf between title and introduction appears to have been excised, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Third book by the early British feminist, writer, and theosophist Rosa Frances Emily Swiney (1847-1922), who, in addition to fighting for women's suffrage and control of their own sexuality, espoused what has been termed a 'Theosophical matriarchalism,' a precursor of the 'Goddess movement'