Excerpt from The Saleslady

The S aleslady is, at any rate, a contribution to our knowl edge Of changes that are taking place in the life and charac ter of women as a result of their entrance into the broader fields of economic life. It is in manner impressionistic and descriptive rather than systematic and formal, Frances Donovan, the author, is rather more interested in the his tory than in the sociology Of contemporary life. The book she has written, because Of its exploratory character, has more the character of a personal narrative and a report of observations than of a systematic treatise. It is written, one may perhaps say, from the point of View Of what Lindeman aptly calls the participant Observer. The author has been able to enter sympathetically and understandingly into the experiences Of the persons whose lives she depicts, but at the same time she is keenly alive to the larger implications Of her own experiences and those of the women with whom she is associated.

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