IT is one of the most striking instances of modern progress that the missions of women are beginning to be so clearlyrecognized It is not long, since a woman who dared to step beyond the circle of home and social duties was looked upon with timid wonder by her own sex, and disapprobation by the other; but in this more enlightened age her usefulness isreadily acknowledged. England holds up her Florence Nightingale, that courageous, noble woman, whose name is heard with love and reverence through the whole civilized world. ...
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IT is one of the most striking instances of modern progress that the missions of women are beginning to be so clearlyrecognized It is not long, since a woman who dared to step beyond the circle of home and social duties was looked upon with timid wonder by her own sex, and disapprobation by the other; but in this more enlightened age her usefulness isreadily acknowledged. England holds up her Florence Nightingale, that courageous, noble woman, whose name is heard with love and reverence through the whole civilized world. Can we not, in America, point out our bright stars in the galaxy of heroines?
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4.75"x7.25" A New and Carefully Revised Edition; Illustrated with Steel Portraits; Nubbly brown cloth, formerly gold spine title, blind decoration to boards, pale yellow endpapers / pastedown, & double frontis with tissue; A good moderately worn but pleasing copy with early ink gift note on back fep; 319 pages + 11 leaves of publisher advertisements.
