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    THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHER. 11

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    as doing " ladies they , " thoug forfeit , h their caste fathers and in are , brothers rendered form , and of unfit business prospective to associate husbands -with

    may For each in truth and all a most be engaged insane notion some seems to prevail . that there are onlone or two occupations which a woman can pursue and retain

    y wei the social hed like status an incubus of a gentlewoman the . A more ies of baseless human creatures chimera . never Let upon energ

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    of a respects large their circle a private cultivated of gentilit * ' ladies and y p , " leasant would who would woman invite eagerl , her the y " to lend soc their a the houses assistance ges , and "

    applaud the adventurous she , Who in the first bark dared the unknown sea ;

    while if twothreeor a dozen women of the professional ranks took like course , the , fanciful distinction between different grades

    a , tible of occupation as that between for a liv the elihood famous would enigmatical be as little sums generall of " six y percep dozen

    dozen and half a dozen dozen . " We can willingly admit , what these the slightest experience far of easier different in

    social London circles than would in the prove provincial , that villages experiments and towns are . In the latter , where the local strata are better definedand people care infinitely

    more and don about 't like preserving to tolerate them what intact geolog than ists they , would do in call the " metropolis a dip" or ,

    the " a fault desk " or in the the counter ground , or the worked young the lady needles who audaciousl at a local y invaded station ,

    mi arties ght find The some little difficulty entlemen , in mi maintaining ht refrain for her a ground while at from tea g

    p asking . her to young dance ; g their mammas might feel a greater dread of a " low connection" than if she had remained a nursery governess . that the eldest

    But daug Less hter a even Queen mi in ght " of our brave Twelfth village and Ni conquer " ght we ; believe and these thoug obstacles h at first and surgeon all be the none 's neig the hcertainlhad bee

    bours would whisper mysteriously that Miss H . y a " in her than bonnet other , " it would people be 's butterflies soon found , and that would the said be bee declared made qui more te

    aoney i respectable And if the worst and praiseworth came to the y insect worst . and one were not asked out , fire of

    _, o tea—why then one might stay at home by the one ' s own

    The Profession Of The Teacher. 11

    THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHER . 11

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/11/