Book of the Day: "Homes where the real girls whose characters are here portrayed have lived real lives, hoping and fearing, rejoicing and sorrowing, as real girls always do."

Annie Frances Perram, Go Work! A Book For Girls (New York: Phillips & Hunt/Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1885). Hardcover, no dust jacket. 156 pp. Brown cloth boards with debossed Eastlake-style cover with an angled gilt “ticket” cover. 7.25” x 5”. Good sewn binding. Some childish pencil markings in the rear endpapers. HBB price: $10.

Not much is known of the UK author Annie Frances Perram except that she was a Methodist Tractarian who wrote morally uplifting books, stories, and pamphlets between the late 1870s and World War I.

Of this book, Publishers Weekly noted in 1885: