WHAT GIRLS CAN DO:
A Book for Mothers and Daughters.
By Phyllis Browne, Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1888.
 
Gender Studies, Etiquette
Author of "A Year's Cookery."
 
Sarah Sharp Hamer was a 19th-century novelist from Yorkshire, England who wrote in several different genres, including home-economics, history, and children's literature. Hamer wrote more than a dozen books under three different pen names including What Girls Can Do (Phyllis Browne), Mrs. Somerville and Mary Carpenter (Phyllis Browne), and Happy Little People (Olive Patch). Her son, Sam Hield Hamer, was also a notable children's author.
 
Red cover with gilt title and chocolate endpapers. Inner binding crack at front and shifted spine. Cover rubbed and lightly soiled with a sunned spine.
7-1/4 x 5 with 376 pages.