Women Authors of Our Day in Their Homes.
[Anthologies]. Halsey, Francis Whiting. Women Authors of Our Day In Their Homes. Personal Descriptions & Interviews. With many Full-page Illustrations. New York: James Pott, 1903.
8vo.; photographic frontispiece; 16 photographs throughout; black cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt; contemporary ownership inscription on front endpaper; fine.
First edition. A collection of 26 sketches, most of which had originally run in altered form in the New York Times Saturday Review of Books. “The two volumes already issued in this series have dealt exclusively with the homes of men...Meanwhile, authorship has become a source of income to women, a considerable number of whom have found it the means to a comfortable livelihood” (from the Preface). Includes portraits of Louise Chadler Moulton, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Rebecca Harding Davis, and others.
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