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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1881. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. QUITE RARE POETRY BOOK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMAN First edition. 3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches. iv, (2), [3]-317pp. Worn original green cloth with embossed design and gilt logos and type on front and spine. Previous owners names and dates on front endpaper. Good condition. A collection of poetry, Under the Olive, which included the poem "Not by will, and not in striving": Published anonymously, this volume contains 19 verses written in classical meter on subjects such as Achilles, Sophocles, and Pandora. The book was well received. Harriet Beecher Stowe, a close friend of Fields, was happy for the book's reception, but she thought that Fields' charity work had a "higher beauty."