The Girls' Empire: The Annual for English Speaking Girls All Over the World

How to equip your daughter for the real world? Discover advice published quite seriously in 1903, but now wonderfully amusing. How to play sports in long skirts, from lawn tennis to bicycling. The virtues of cold baths and reticence. The dangers of novel-reading. How to manage girls' pets such as carrier pigeons and gold fish. Short stories with life lessons, including Daisy's Mistake and Hilda's Heroism. Typewriting as a career. Plus delicious recipes for teatime, and observations that seem reassuringly relevant even today. Hardcover; 224 pages, more than 140 vintage black-and-white photographs and illustrations.