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    10 MARIA EDGE WORTH.

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    II.—MARIA EDGEWOItTH. ^^—

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    Amokgst the changes which have taken pla...

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    solution for eaeh and all will be found . Happily for us it is not incumbent on the _English . Woman's Journal that its pages should

    contain the complete rationale of every question which it opens therein . Our very existence is but a sign of the times . We do not

    propound mere theories;—we watch , report , discuss experiments which are being worked out by society under our eyes and those of

    our readers . To interpret what we see , to give system to what seems vague and formless , and to create a rallying point for the men and

    women who care to help womanhood , and , through womanhood * humanity at large—this is what we aspire to do ; and no question

    lies nearer to the roots of social good and evil than that involved in

    the adoption of professional life by women .

    10 Maria Edge Worth.

    10 MARIA EDGE WORTH .

    Ii.—Maria Edgewoitth. ^^—

    II . —MARIA EDGEWOItTH . _^^—

    Amokgst The Changes Which Have Taken Pla...

    Amokgst the changes which have taken place in the gradual progress of societyperhaps the most remarkable is that which has

    , occurred in the position , social and intellectual , of Woman . The time was , when the following appeal from the pen of an

    anonymous champion * was perfectly applicable , though we feel now astonished to think that it should ever have been necessary .

    who " I must am for be contradicted treating women or like thwarted rational I beings would , have not like them spoiled reasone children d with . , ;

    not laughed at ; put aside by an appeal to their good sense , not hy a sarcasm , , them a bow treated or a joke like ; men dealt of plainl common y with sense , not flattered They are . not In a inferior word , I to would men have onl

    en unl bo t th irel ike . " y them or in ; each t ; sex but has all , qualities fitted and of . desi whi gned ch the other the m is destitute tual com , fort either , of y

    In speaking on this subject , when we describe past days as " that time when a young lady ' s education consisted in learning to work

    her sampler , and to study the Bible and the cookery book "—we speak almost proverbially : and probably the sarcastic lines of Pope

    ( though he knew a Lady Mary Wortley ) describe with tolerable accuracy the estimation in which in his day the sex was almost

    generally held . " " Most Nothing women so true have as no what character you once at let ally fall

    True , even in these 6 dark ages' of woman , we may trace as it were a chain of female talent , —or perhaps to express it more happily

    , a line of light stretching along the murky sky of ignorance—as we think of the names of Thrale and Montague , Carter and Chapone ,

    More and Barbauld , Burney and Austin : but these were regarded as exceptions to a general rule , and that degree , of mental _cultivation _^

    * In Blaekwood ' s Magazine .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/10/