Japanese Girls and Women

Description

Japanese Girls and Women is a book by Alice Mabel Bacon that was first published in 1891. The author was an American foreign advisor to the Japanese government in mid-nineteenth, early-twentieth century Japan. After receiving an invitation to serve as a teacher at a school for girls in 1888, Bacon found herself going back again in 1900 to help establish the Joshi Eigaku Juku (Women's English Preparatory School). This book gives information about the life of Japanese women and girls in respect to subjects such as childhood, education, marriage, being a wife and mother, old age, samurai women, peasant women, court life, life in the cities, and domestic service.

This book has 95,856 words, 130 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1891.

Production notes: This ebook of Japanese Girls and Women was published by Global Grey on the 7th April 2022. The artwork used for the cover is 'Japanese Woman with Parasol' by G. Hessl.