[ Salesman's Dummy ]. Woman. Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Her Biography. Her History. From the Garden of Eden to the Twentieth Century. Prepared by Carefully Selected Writers. Illustrated.

Springfield, Mass: The King-Richardson Co., 1901 Publisher's black leather with gilt title. . Octavo. With a frontispiece of Martha Washington and 40 full-page illustrations of some of the notable women described in the work. Also with color borders around most illustrations and accent color backgrounds on front matter. Rubbing to leather and some chipping to head and tail of spine. Green pictorial cloth exemplar, decorated in red and black and titled in gilt, inside front cover. Red cloth exemplar, stamped in black, inside rear cover. Both exemplars are very bright and clean. Top edge gilt and red-speckled fore-edge. Floral endpapers. A very good, (truncated) very internally clean copy of this rare salesman's sample. The table of contents notes six chapters showcasing notable women divided by historical moment. The work opens with "Woman Before the Christian Era" and ends with "The Golden Age of Woman's Achievement: A Century of Unparalleled Progress (1800 - 1900)." That chapter includes interesting entries on contemporary American figures like Emma Willard, Maria Mitchell, Clara Barton, and Helen Hunt Jackson. Also included are international women like Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (1858 –1922), "educated Hindu defender of child-widows"; and Empress Dowager Cixi, noted here under the variant name Tsze Hsi An (1835 – 1908), "The Famous Empress Dowager of China." One additional chapter is titled "Contribution of Woman to Modern Civilization" and summarizes the role of women in science, educational reform, law, missionary work, and more. (Inventory #: 16882)