Thanks, Kevin, for that list.  We've had the sections of *Facts, By a
Woman* that treats selling Mark Twain door-to-door in California up in the
site *Mark Twain in His Times* for a couple years, but I didn't know about
the other two books.  If I can track them down, I'll try to add them to
*Facts.*  And thanks, Barbara, for finding out more about who "A Woman"
was.  There's a copy of the book in the Barrett Collection here at U.Va.,
but no identification of the author.  Unless someone in the Forum thinks
there is any reason to doubt the identification, I'll add the information
as "probable" to the site, and pass it on to our cataloguer.
If you want to read the excerpt from *Facts,* its in *Mark Twain in His
Times* (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton) under the category
"Marketing Twain."  It's very readable, and a good reminder of how
complicated were the motives that 19th century Americans had for buying
Twain's books.  Stephen Railton


At 11:24 AM 3/23/00 -0600, you wrote:
>In reponse to one part of Kevin Mac Donnell's questions regarding
>_Facts By a Woman_ -- there appears to have been some later
>research done on her and her book.  WorldCat lists the following
>entry:
>
>AUTHOR: =CAWasson, Harriet, b. 1842.=20
>TITLE: =CAFacts by a woman : written 1877 by Harriet Wasson, born Sept. 15,
>1842, Wooster, Ohio (daughter of John M.  Wasson, 1802-1883)=20
>PLACE: =CAWest Milton, Ohio :=20
>PUBLISHER: =CAA.M. Schumann,=20
>YEAR: =CA1996=20
>PUB TYPE: =CABook=20
>FORMAT: =CA1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.=20
>NOTES: =CA"A biography and book review done in 1973"--P. [2] Facts by a
>woman originally published: Oakland, Calif. :Pacific Press Publishing
>House, 1881. 356 p. photocopied two pages to one, with some slight error
>in sequence. "Reprinted [photocopied] and added to by Arthur M. Schumann."
>pt. 1. A biography and book review / by Arthur M. Schumann -- pt. 2. Facts
>by a woman / by Harriet Wasson.=20
>SUBJECT: =CAWasson, Harriet, -- b. 1842. Oakland (Calif.)=20
>OTHER: =CASchumann, Arthur M.     =20
>