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    230 WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?

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    Whatever efforts may Be made by a small set of people , by a reall evident societ y y create , that or by they independent a knot can collected only activity set the round far movement and a periodical wide going , the like . first If this impetus it , does it is very will not

    be of little avail . But it seems to me that this subject cannot be discussed in the what

    manner of an essay , as if it were an impersonal affair ; we myself _want " I who will are to therefore received reach living are * and speak at the breathing least common with a colloquial hundred thoug at this hts moment letters p and lainness probable during in all and parts actions the say past of that of Eng month women I land have , .

    from ladies signing themselves by every Christian name in the alphabet and , the from loyment lad Anne y who of to Women acts Zora as , has all secretary asking seen at to how least the they Society a hundred could for get Promoting similar employment app the li- ;

    Emp cants anxious . conversations We have both respecting also been the naturall wisest y and broug the ht safest into course numerous to

    friends be pursued so that in the we case ht of at those all events intimatel to have y known reached to us something and our

    like a fair ; and wholesome oug estimate of the real difficulties which beset a loyment girl of the Two middle strike classes me as who being wants of to the get most a safe importance and paying , and em to

    face p create social the . op greatest inion in hinderance a new path in , and their the way want : - of want a little of courage money to to

    start with . into I wish the li it ght were of day possible . It to is drag so very these obvious feelings that of social room caste of canno fairl t be y

    made in the arts or in intellectual careers for the mass unemp if loye they d women wish fco , and pass that useful they and must happy resort live without to s ; commerce therefore and the caste idea to trade must that

    a young lady cannot engage in business losing be But conquered even if if any two real way is ladies to be personall made . y known to us were at thimoment to any be anxious young to start in some reputable business , an

    s immediate barrier would arise in the want of capital . Girls never have the very any first cap move ital , they is impossible hardly know ; they what may it enter means a ; shop yet , without but they it

    cannot own one . and Consider women the great in this difference respect betwe ; the en latter the position have onl of y their young pocket men young

    rent money small and sums , sometimes to vary the ing number twent according y of pounds his to daug , the sometimes hters means . of thirt It the is y all pounds middle they - can class a year do pa to - ; -

    dress , upon this allowance ; purchase a very few birth-day presents , and As to buy being writin able g paper at any and time stamps to command for their a limited larger dream sum correspondence , ( even and it this is . beinpaid quarterl ) it is wild and impossible

    equall g y impossible to y , borrow a , as they can give no security ; . Many

    230 What Can Educated Women Do?

    230 WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/2/