Why We Should All Read, in 2024, This Long-forgotten Book from 1859

Counting print and digital formats, more than one billion books are sold in the US each year. With so many titles and only so much time, it’s easy to dismiss or overlook books that are decades or even centuries old. That can be a mistake. And to prove it, here are a quick summary and a few short excerpts from A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life by Eliza Potter (1859) — a…