Women's Studies Books

Beeton's Book of Needlework

Mrs. Beeton

The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of the world's history, and has, also, from time immemorial been the support, comfort, or employment of women of every rank and age. Day by day, it..

A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females

Harvey Newcomb

The following Letters were truly, as they profess to have been, written to a younger sister of the author. By the death of her parents, she was left, in a measure, dependent upon him, at an early age...

Cicely and Other Stories

Annie F. Johnston

These stories first appeared in the Youth's Companion and Forward. The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors in permitting her to republish them in the present volume. Messrs. L.C. ..

The Living Present

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

If this little book reads more like a memoir than a systematic study of conditions, my excuse is that I remained too long in France and was too much with the people whose work most interested me, to b..

Yksinkertainen sydän

Gustave Flaubert

Yksinkertainen sydän is Finnish fiction on about Women household employees written by Gustave Flaubert, a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary r..

What Diantha Did

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate the circumstances of women in the early 20th century.Diantha..

The Precipice - A Novel

Elia W. Peattie

The Precipice is a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia. It was originally published in 1869 in Vestnik Evropy. Lat..

The Truth About Woman

C. Gasquoine Hartley

It is very difficult to write a preface to a work which is expressly intended as a revelation of the faith of the writer. The successive stages of thought and emotion that have been passed through are..