A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY

Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches, Accompanied by Portraits of

LEADING AMERICAN WOMEN

IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE.

EDITED BY

Frances E. Willard
Willard and Mary A. Livermore,

ASSISTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE CONTRIBUTORS.

THE
THE publication of A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY
has been undertaken to provide a Biographical
Record of a remarkable era in the History of
the World. Woman's place in modern life is fully
recognized, and the work will meet the requirements
demanded by a discriminating public. It is the
most important undertaking of its kind ever at-
tempted. It embraces biographical sketches of all
women prominently connected with the present age
of woman's activity; all women noteworthy in the
church, at the bar, in literature and music, in art
and the drama, in science and invention, in social
and political reform, in commerce or philanthropy.
It, in brief, includes the name of every woman in
every branch of human activity worthy of note, who
is identified with American progress and civilization
of the present day.

THE BIOGRAPHIES.

The biographies are of sufficient fullness to include all facts deserving mention, and taken together they will afford a complete record of that branch of history referring to American women of the present century. It is intended to make each charactersketch a likeness which the world will immediately recognize; which will give the underlying motive to the individual endeavor, the secret of her success, the methods and means of her progress, and the aim and the aspiration of her thought. It has been the aim, moreover, to render the Cyclopædia educational, as well as entertaining and instructive, by making those articles treating of important women and measures constitute noteworthy eras of national history. Each sketch was placed in hands selected from the whole country as best fitted for the task, and then it was revised and arranged by the editors to make one harmonious whole.

THE PORTRAITS.

The biographical sketches are accompanied by original half-tone engravings, made direct from a photograph, and executed in the highest form of art. These engravings, thirteen hundred in number, form one of the most valuable picture galleries ever given to the public through the medium of a printing

press.

THE EDITORS.

The fact that the work is edited by two wellknown women whose world-wide reputations are second to none in their respective spheres of activity, is sufficient guarantee of its literary excellence and high standing.

THE BOOK.

A Woman of the Century extends to eight hundred-thirty pages, size of page, eight by eleven inches. It is printed from an attractive full-face brevier type on heavy, high-grade, coated book paper, and the press work is unexcelled. The typography is by Charles Wells Moulton, the engraving and electrotypes by the Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Company, the press work by the Kittinger Printing Company, the paper by the S. Worthington Paper Company, the binding by William H. Bork. În mechanical execution it is as near perfect as it could be made by the combined resources of the above firms. The volume contains fourteen hundred-seventy biographies, and thirteen hundred-thirty engravings of a uniform size and style. It is sold by subscription only, by the publisher or an authorized representative.

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