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Business of Being a Woman, The
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Title: The Business of Being a Woman
Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Release Date: August 21, 2005 [eBook #16577]
Language: English
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THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WOMAN
by
IDA M. TARBELL
Associate Editor of the "American Magazine" Author of "Life of Abraham Lincoln" "History of the Standard Oil Co." "He Knew Lincoln," etc.
New York The MacMillan Company New York · Boston · Chicago Dallas · San Francisco Macmillan & Co., Limited London · Bombay · Calcutta Melbourne The Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd. Toronto Norwood Press J.S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
1921
TO
E.I.T. AND C.C.T.
INTRODUCTION
The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern woman, of the significance and dignity of the work laid upon her by Nature and by societ