[Rarebooks] FS: True Adventures of a Working Woman in New York--But who was she?
Bob Petrilla
petrillabooks at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 08:47:27 EST 2013
Anonymous. FOUR YEARS IN THE UNDERBRUSH: Adventures as a Working Woman in
New York. NY: Scribner's, 1921. First Edition. pp: viii, 315. Pictorial
cover, showing the Manhattan side of the Queensborough Bridge.
*The anonymous author states that she had written four successful novels
before attempting this realistic account by living as an unskilled working
woman in New York City, 1916 to 1920, working in 25 different occupations.
She worked in factories, banks, department stores, as a social worker, a
waitress, &c., and discovered that in many jobs, the female worker was
exploited*. $85.00
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