Excerpt from The Woman Who Wouldn't Discovered: katie, a thin, pale child of nervous movements, sits on stool near table Right, laboriously trying to fashion a red flower. Katherine, a hard-working woman of forty three, stout and troubled with rheumatism, is ironing an elaborate undergarment. Her face is expressive of extreme humility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.