The Business of Being a Woman

By IDA M. TARBELL

What is the business of being a woman? Is it something incompatible with the free and joyous development of one’s talents? Is there no place in it for economic independence? Has it no essential relation to the world’s movements? Is it an episode which drains the forces and leaves a dreary wreck behind? Is it something that cannot be organized into a profession of dignity and opportunity for service and for happiness? These are some of the questions Miss Tarbell answers. She has treated on broad lines the political, social, and economic issues of to-day as they affect woman. Suffrage, Woman and the Household, The Home as an Educational Center, the Homeless Daughter, Friendless Youth, and the Irresponsible Woman—these but suggest the train of Miss Tarbell’s thought; she has made out of them, because of their bearing on all of her sex, a powerful, unified narrative.

Life of Abraham Lincoln

With 32 full-page illustrations, cloth, 8vo, two volumes, $5.00

Drawn from original sources, and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished.

Miss Tarbell’s “Life of Abraham Lincoln” is now enjoying a greater popularity and a higher ranking than in any previous year of its publication. Alone, it was sufficient in accomplishment to place her in the leading rank of biographers, and it promises to hold indefinitely its undisputed position.

“Miss Tarbell’s work presents a portrait that no student of history can afford to miss.”—Brooklyn Eagle.

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