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George J. Manson
A late-19th-century writer with a knack for practical subjects, he is best known today for a guide to women's employment at a time when those opportunities were expanding and hotly debated. His surviving work offers a small but revealing window into everyday social questions of his era.
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Work for Women
by George J. Manson
About the author
Little biographical information about George J. Manson is easy to confirm from major reference sources, but his published work shows him as an author active in the late 1800s.
His best-known book, Work for Women, grew out of a series of articles he wrote for the New York Christian Union in the winter of 1882–1883. In that book, he set out to give women practical information about occupations, training, wages, and the realities of earning a living, making it a useful record of changing ideas about work and independence in that period.
Manson also wrote on other topics. His byline appears on a Scientific American piece from 1895, and he is associated with Smoking: A World of Curious Facts, Queer Fancies, and Lively Anecdotes About Pipes, Tobacco and Cigars, showing a range that moved from social guidance to popular nonfiction and general-interest writing.