What Can a Woman Do : Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World
Detroit, MI: F. B. Dickerson & Co., 1888. Black and white illustrations. Early printing. Publisher's full red cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt, decorated paper endpapers. 528 pp. 9" x 6.5" Slight lean, light sunning spine, touch of soiling upper edge, still near fine. Item #243845
FOR THE WORKING WOMAN
Well, what can a woman do? According to Martha Louise Rayne, Gilded Age women had unprecedented options. These middle-class mothers looking to enter the workforce could make any number of choices: photographers or book canvassers or beekeepers or nurses. Rayne was a full-time journalist who would go on to establish her own School of Journalism after her comprehensive handbook for working women exploded into the nineteenth century market. Particularly interested in female writers, Rayne tucked poems throughout her guide as a beacon for what women could strive towards.
Price: $150.00