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    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO? 295

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    never heard a "word about the unfitness of their pursuits , or any tendency in these to separate them from three the fourths men of of their the adult own

    rank . The real truth is that very nearly indep unmarried endent women factors of that this they country , above easil the and age happ of ily twenty from , this are

    their position individual , and continue circumstances ; their work marry the or number discontinue y of their it children according , and to

    various considerations which cannot , be reduced to any rule . Therethe portion fore question we of are the arguing as whole if it were about body a of a desperate very women small , , hopeless and , thoug it is , h absurd and very anomalous important to deal hitch with

    proin To our hear social the welfare remarks . made by very clever and very kind people bouleversement

    © about f the this whole subject nature , it would and be duties easy of to women fancy that had some become a lamentfeel

    we thai able ; are this necessit now notion y try . ing is The an so more utter earnestl I exaggeration think y to the remove about . it is , I the the believe of growth more the that middle sure of the modern I class evil

    As times civilisation , and closel has y increased connected during with the growth last century , a number of . where women considerable have been cultivation uplifted by and the a total labors abnegation of men into of household a sphere

    work have become a custom and a creed , but no corresponding provision has been made for them of occupation in the higher and their male

    more intellectual fields of work . They share , through relativein all the vicissitudes to which individual members of

    on the these middle s , turns class of are the subject tide , having ; and they been are trained help to lessl no y method dependent of the

    of self the -help middle . All classes that seems , belong to ing me to to be professional wanted of those is or that classes to commercial instead women

    families , should heartily accept the life , of Daug aping hters the living life of idl the y at aristocracy home wMle . their parents cannot in hope

    to leave them a maintenance , are in facfc the exceptions our the ting busy " rest , an respectable exceptional of their sisters female class , finding p of opulation paupers such . , and occupations Let them take up shrink as their will from lot call crea with out

    -1 ladies and emp need loy be their more better unsexed education than . working I cannot housemaids see why , nor working why ible wife to

    that working activity , which should is deemed when exercised to make a on wo hi m g an her eli subj g ects as unfit a and

    discredit a her man to , be the , wife of a working barrister or medical , man . But it is little use to argue against ideas of caste which are so and active

    deeply rooted in our middle classes , unless some wise measures are also taken to change the current .

    hinder This women brings from me to possessing the third great themselves want of which a fair seems share to of me the to

    domain of business : the want of efficient female superintendence in

    What Can Educated Women Do? 295

    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ? 295

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/7/