A small collection of found names (of authors, editors and the like) that amuse my American eyes and ears:

Isaac Izecksohn, Bruno Grimschitz, Schlomo Garfunkel.

For your next hate-infused bierfest...

Published by the German Socialist Party in the 1890's: "German Social Songbook: containing 142 of the best German and anti-Semitic songs."

A few years later, I imagine these fellas threw a helluva beirfest!

Published in 1886 Switzerland by Cooperative Print Shop, the publishing information of this book includes a long phrase in German which translates into English (by Google Translate) as:  "in the merry month of the eighth year of the Socialist Law-shame."

As whimsical and/or humorous as that translation may sound, I must tell you that "Wonnemonat" is actually the German word for May and translates literally to "Month of delight" or "Month of joy" so, technically, Google was right.

As for the rest of it, well, the Sozialistengesetz (or "Socialist Law," though really it was anti-Socialist law) was a series of acts passed in 1878 Germany after two failed attempts to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm I.  These unsuccessful threats to his life were believed to have been influenced by the growing strength of the Social Democratic Party and, so, the new laws were meant to cripple the organization by limiting the dissemination of socialist principles in a variety of ways (including the shutting down of nearly 50 newspapers, the banning of the party's propaganda, and not allowing the formation of groups or meetings with the intent of spreading socialist views).

The acts were ultimately unsuccessful, however, as the Social Democratic Party continued to gain in popularity. This result was no doubt a happy one for those affiliated with this book (the title of which I didn't note) for it was published (outside of Germany, unsurprisingly) in May 1886--a month after the third extension of the Sozialistengesetz--with a phrase that seems to indicate that the book's creators viewed Germany's anti-Socialist law as shameful.

Scallywags, hands off!

Published in London, 1930: "Pink Furniture:  A Tale for Lovely Children with Noble Natures."

Perhaps where a noble child might sit?

I'm guessing he was a glass-half-empty kind of fella...

By Hugh Kingsmill, 1929's "An Anthology of Invective and Abuse."  Two years later, he published another anthology with a title that could've been the subtitle of the previous book: "The Worst of Love."

A group that would no doubt be appalled by People Magazine...

The publishing information of the book previously posted--"Lives of Eminent Persons," 1833:

"Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge."

Nowadays, we call this People Magazine...

Book published in 1833:  "Lives of Eminent Persons."

Fortunately, female nervous systems improved during the 20th century...

Excerpt from previously mentioned Grace Goodwin's "Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons" published in 1912 (my own notes, clarifications and assumptions are in brackets):

Colleges have occasionally declared marriage to be a lamentable end to a woman's "career," a sad falling off from the "higher life."  Talking will not change matters, nor argument eradicate the fact that as long as the race has a mother, that mother will have to be a woman, and if a woman is not a mother she has failed, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to do the only thing for which, in the original scheme of creation, she was intended.

Therefore, the assuming of political duties [primarily voting, of course, but--as later detailed--also "...carrying out of political plans,...attending political conventions,...doing jury duty..."], as many women must assume them in the event of a granted franchise to all adults properly qualified, must be not substitutional, but additional.  We cannot wholly, nor even in large measure, evade our own duties and responsibilities, and to these we must add the burdens and duties of men.  There is nothing of a woman's natural duty which a man can do as well as a woman, yet, with amusing arrogance, women claim that they will be able easily to do the work in which for centuries men have been specially trained,--to do this work as well as he, or better than he, and to do their own at the same time.

Let us just state frankly a few things which every woman knows.  During all the forceful period of a woman's life she labors under distinct disabilities on account of her sex; it trips her up at every turn; many women are in a constant state of rebellion because they absolutely must take some sort of care of themselves or be invalided out of the race.  In the carrying out of political plans, in attending political conventions, in doing jury duty, a woman will be at the mercy of her nature.  For one whole year, if a new life is to emerge [i.e., if a child is to be born from her pregnancy], she is unfit to assume additional risk in the overstrain of her normally taxed nervous system.  Maternity is an exhibition of a woman's nervous system taxed to a normal limit, and normally entirely equal to the strain.  But while pregnancy is not a pathological condition, it is the limit of nerve-tax.  Presumably there are other children and a home.  How much more ought a woman to do?  And for every woman married or single, during the greater part of her life, there is the plain and unchangeable fact that she lives in a periodic nervous cycle [i.e., women have a menstrual cycle], when the life-forces are normal, below normal, and again normal, and that during the below-normal period she is again very nearly at the nervous limit.  Why pretend that these things are negligible?  Every woman knows they are not, but she fears the derision of other women if she admits it.  Where, then, is her surplus strength, where the extra force to be expended in political excitements?

Every student of industrial conditions, every one who tries to wrestle with the new science of eugenics, recognizes that the danger to the working girl which transcends all other dangers, is the danger to her motherhood [presumably either or both that working in industrial environments could cause the loss of a woman's ability to become a mother due to the strain on her nervous system (and, thus, her "life-force")--which would weaken her so that she might be unable to conceive and/or carry a child to birth--or that she may die (as a direct result of the job or due to the "nervous system strain") and, thus, be eliminated as a potential provider of children to her society], and that the paramount danger to the state in her industrial life is the loss of so many potential mothers; for the great wheels eat up the nerve-forces of a woman's life; the standing, the treading, are perilous to her feminine powers.

--Pages 86-89

The average woman has as much brains as the average man, and average persons are going to do the greater part of the voting, but the woman lacks endurance in things mental; her fortitudes are physical and spiritual.  She lacks nervous stability.  The suffragists who dismay England are nerve-sick women.

--Page 92

Want to read the entire book?  You can do so here, at Google Books. (It seems that the first page or few of the text is missing from their copy.)

Back when women's rights wasn't exactly a fashionable idea...

 
While going through the collection of a large law library, I wondered if I'd ever come across a book with a female author or editor. I doubted it, considering the books were largely published in the 1800's and early 1900's, but after a week of eight-hour-day work, I found one:

Published in 1912 and written by Grace Goodwin: "Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons."

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the third gender...

Book published in 1947: "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex."

Hitler's afoot! Protect your family with Phoenix Life!

A non-fiction book published in 1930's Vienna by Phoenix Life Insurance Company. Its subject: "Czechoslovakia--description and travel." Its title: "Kidnapped!"