What A Young Girl Ought To Know, Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. The Vir Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1905. Self and Sex Series. New Revised Edition. 12mo up to 7½” tall. 194 pp. plus advertisements and 6 pp of commendations and portrait photos of eminent Americans; portrait frontis of Mary Wood-Allen, protected with tissue guard. Maroon cloth boards with embossed and blind stamped titles front and gilt titles to spine. In very good plus condition with rubbing to boards and slightly weakened hinges; without tears, folds or markings.
Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. (1841-1908) was the National Superintendent of the Purity department, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She occupied a prominent and influential position in the women’s social movement during the late nineteenth century.
