The first edition of this little book appeared in 1881.
It was suggested by the enquiries constantly made at the
various offices of the NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE, in the hope that it might afford in a short
compass the information most frequently asked for.
Similar enquiries on an ever increasing variety of
topics continue to be made; but the book has long been
obsolete in nearly all its parts. This new edition is
therefore now offered in the hope that it will be found
a handy book of reference to the rapidly increasing band
of "Women Workers."
Several of the additional sections have appeared from
time to time in the Englishwoman's Review and Women's
Suffrage Calendar, and are here brought up to the present
The Illustration on the cover represents the Seal of
Ela, Countess of Salisbury, who, as Sheriff of Wiltshire,
and later as Abbess of Laycock, was a woman engaged in
social and political work" six centuries ago.