Almost a Woman
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Social science readers interested in the history of women's growth and the evolution of gender concepts
- Academic researchers studying late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century discourse on love, marriage, and education
- General readers willing to read English public-domain books and preferring historical texts
- Writers needing primary materials in women's writing and moral exhortation
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking practical contemporary advice on love, marriage, or child-rearing
- Leisure readers who prefer fast-paced plots and literary narrative
- Beginners unaccustomed to old-fashioned English expressions and a preachy tone
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and chapter openings to grasp the framework of women's growth stages discussed in the book, then select key chapters for close reading.
- Note the author's era-specific assumptions as you read and compare them with contemporary gender concepts to form your own judgment.
- If using it for research, excerpt original passages by theme and note the edition and source for citation.
- Do not agonize over every word where the English is dated; grasp the main point of the paragraph and move on.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Mary Augusta Wood-Allen (1841–1908) was an American physician, social reformer and writer. She was born on 19 October 1841 in Ohio and died in Washington in 1908. After earning her medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1875, she lectured for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on heredity and hygiene and became an important voice in the American social purity movement. Her books, written for general readers, focused on young women's physical health, adolescence and moral self-discipline, and are marked by a strongly instructive tone typical of their era. Her representative works include What a Young Woman Ought to Know, Almost A Man and Almost a Woman. Because public information is limited, the details of her life and the Chinese-language reception of her work remain to be further examined.
