Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett. Advice and cautionary tales for young working women setting up households - the rent, the drink, the husband, the neighbors. Guernsey wrote for the American tract societies and the practical detail is worth more than the moral. This edition adds fifty-two plates of painting by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness and others, alongside seven illustrations restored and coloured.