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    Vol. I. March 1, 1858. No. 1.

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    I.—THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEB.

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    The Annual Reports of the Governesses' B...

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    The

    THE

    ENGLISH WOMAN ' S JOURNAL .

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. I. March 1, 1858. No. 1.

    Vol . I . March 1 , 1858 . No . 1 .

    I.—The Profession Of The Teacheb.

    I . —THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEB .

    The Annual Reports Of The Governesses' B...

    The Annual Reports of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , from 1843 to 1856 .

    In casting a preliminary glance over the vast field of female paid labour in this countrya field which may be roughly calculated to

    , embrace about three millions of women , or half its female population , we are well assured that one department will chiefly interest

    the majority of our readers ;—namely the Profession of the Teacher . And this for an obvious reason , that it is the only profession open

    to an educated woman of average ability . Few are aware of the extent to which women of the lower classes are employed in

    undomestic labour , in the factory , the workshop , and the field ;—but while all our lady readers have received instruction from some

    class of governess , there is probably not one who has not also some relative or cherished friend either actually engaged in teaching , or

    having formerly been so engaged . We find families who have no link with the army , the navy , or the church ; others , who in all their

    wide-spread connection , have kept aloof from trade;—but from the highest to the lowest rank in which a liberal education is bestowed

    , we shall find some cousin or friend who is a governess . Indeed , it is not a question of rank at all , for the unmarried female members

    of the small merchant ' s family enter the profession from natural necessityand the fortuneless daughters of the highly connected

    clergyman , have often no other resource . It is a platform on which middle and upper classes meet , the one struggling up , the other

    killed drifting - _^— down if brothers . If a require father a dies college , or a e bank ducation break to s , fit or them a husband for one is

    of the , many careers open to an M . A ., or orphan nephews and nieces are cast helpless upon a woman's heart , here is the one means of

    bread winning to which access alone seems open , —to which alone untrained capacity is equal or pride admits appeal .

    This brief statement sums up the conclusion to which many melancholy narratives of dire suffering and long struggle furnish

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/1/