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Vol. II. September 1 % 1858. No. 7.
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I—ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Ii. September 1 % 1858. No. 7.
Vol . II . September 1 % 1858 . No . 7 .
I—On The Adoption Of Professional Life
I—ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE ' BY "WOMEN .
——.. ^ We Do Not Propose To Consider In ...
—— _.. _^ We do not propose to consider in these pages the theory of woman ' s ;
mission . It is a vexed question which will not be settled by words , which words have rather a tendency to embitterand we do not
imag nay , ine that any reluctant mind was ever argued into , a belief that it was good for a woman to leave her own fireside . Two only means
of conviction can be employed with success , the presentation of facts connected with female destitution , and the sight of successful
professional eminence actually attained , without any sacrifice of happiness True , by to our one invariable of the female aim sex of . connecting this Journal with every
practical movement arising out of our special interests , we do propose to consider what is being done by young women in various
professional departments ; what are the chief difficulties which beset them in private and in public life , and in what way help may best be
bestowed . It is become a stock phrase that the household customs of out
grandmothers are fast wearing away in every class of society . In the er ranks they have become " Huxe by degrees and beautifully
less , upp " till their trace is almost imperceptible . Among the middle ranksthe introduction of the sewing machine will gradually banish
the chief , domestic industry which yet remains . In America it is largelusedand in London it is already creeping into the
establishments y of tailors , and milliners , causing a great reduction in the number of hands employed . In one case we know of the dismissal of ten
young workwomen , consequent on the purchase of a machine . In a few the making of shirts and dresses by hand will become as
much years a tradition amongst us as is now the use of the spinning wheel , and though the ladies who believe that a piece of silk dropped in at
one end is turned out a complete garment at the other , ( deftly fashioned like a Birmingham pin , ) aro tinder a delusion as to the
exact nature of this wonderful invention , still the headwork required to direct its operation is but small , and an alarming amount
of human ingenuity will be set free . In cookery the same substitution of mechanical aids is also taking
place—steaan ranges and all the other paraphernalia of a first _class
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/1/
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