Clubs for Working Girls by Stanley, Maude - 1890

London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Hardcover. Orig. Blue boards. Very good. 276 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Maude Stanley, a youth worker, who launched the London Union of Girls Clubs, illustrates the temptation surrounding poor young women: "the visit to the music hall, the cheap theaters, the gin-palaces, the dancing saloons, and the wine shop; then soon follow other temptations, the easy sliding into greater sin, the degradation and the downfall of all womanly virtue...Well, to counteract these dangers, to save our poor children just starting into womanhood - we say, establish in every locality clubs for working girls." Ex. Lib. Meadville Theological School. Book plates (two) on verso of cover, stamped and perforated on title page. Interior clean and crisp, some fraying at head and tail of spine.