The woman's book
Subtitle: dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems.
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1894
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Women -- Employment; Home economics; Women -- Social and moral questions; Interior decoration
Description: The eleven authors who contributed essays to this book on women in business, education, and the professions reflect the changing attitudes towards women at the end of the 19th century.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from the Open Collections Program at Harvard University, Women and work collection.
Appendix, v. 2, gives bibliographies on various subjects treated in the text.
Table of contents: title: I. Occupations for women, by P. G. Hubert, jr.  Women in their business affairs, by W. O. Stoddard.  The principles of housekeeping, by Lillian W. Betts.  Society and social usages, by Constance C. Harrison.  The aesthetics of dress, by Eva W. McGlasson.  Dress from a practical standpoint, by several writers.  Hygiene in the home, by J. W. Roosevelt.  The training of children, by Kate D. Wiggin.  The education of women, by Lyman Abbott.   Books and reading, by T. W. Higginson.  The art of travel, by Elizabeth Bisland.; title: II. The home grounds, by Samuel Parsons, jr.  The flower garden, by J. N. Gerard.  House building, by Helen C. Candee.  House decoration and furnishing, by Mary G. Humphreys.  Women's opportunties in town and country, by Mary C. Jones.  Woman's handiwork, by Constance C. Harrison.  Supplementary information, by various writers.