Women Who Sold Books Door to Door

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The booksellers visited homes and businesses with sample books, took orders, and then later delivered the books and collected payment. Many books published using this “subscription” model sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In an 1868 account of her work selling books across northern Illinois and Indiana, Annie Nelles Dumond described taking up the work out of necessity.

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