Excerpt from Girls: Their Work and Influence<br><br>In putting forth these Papers I should like to say a few words with regard to their origin and purpose.<br><br>They were suggested to me by the thoughtful and useful papers on womankind contributed by Miss Yonge to the Monthly Packet. It occurred to me on reading these Papers that there was a great need for a somewhat similar set of papers addressed to women and girls, in a lower social position than those contemplated by Miss Yonge. This need seemed to me to become day by day more apparent, and I determined to try whether I could not myself supply the want.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.