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Six hundred dollars a year: a wife's effort at low living under high prices

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06854 Author/Creator: Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book Date: 1867 Pagination: 183 p. 16 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Contains information for women on managing household finances, making money, and filling out tax forms. Complains of high taxes. Written in the form of one anonymous woman's experience. Anonymous. Printed by Ticknor & Fields.

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