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ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE BY ...
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and One profession its enclosure after another to the gentle responds demand to the . pressure Sometimes from the without gates ,
are other slowl opens Rosa times y Bonheur forced they burst back steps with with forth a an clang before almost , as when the imperceptible world a Florence giving movement Ni t g htingale socie , t at ,
the or a result of long hidden labors , to posterity the , echo of a hitherto unknown In the last name century . it was a hard matter for a woman icte even tus to write .
Miss Carterthe Greek scholar and translator of Ep , was curren Poems tly rep which or , ted we to should be about now to consider be returned as unworth as " mem y an ber Oxfor for d Deal first . " -
and class the , gained professional quite a reputation authoress for enjoyed their fair a certain writers horrible in the social eminence circle , , walks stilts
such A few lettered assign ladies in our of imag rank ina and tion refinement to a man who made glad upon the hearts . * of Leicester and
B of looms authors bury and Square of s . artists "Very in few the women drawing wro -rooms te for bread , and the
tone Mrs . of Macaulay literature , one as regarded of the limi the ted sex , w terhood as of the of w the orst descri , amia ption bly . to the female
alludes to " those vices and foibles which are peculiar sexvices and foibles which have caused them to be considered in ;
ancient timesas beneath cultivation , and in modern days have sub- ? Jected Whoso them to , b the . censure the llusions and ridicule to women of writers in the of T all atler descri the ptions 6 Spec " -
tator _J an remem d even ers in the ' Rambler ? will acknowledge the t , ' th of the assertion which we have italicised . It was time that women eriodical
w sh hich ould deli take gh u t p the in p such en , if a to t op be l ic y t of o pur abuse ify . t tea he It young in one day p old h farm appene house press d to
us Pile at d " up goose on a berry shelf time above , " the door d drinking oze , n a shelf d volumes inaccessible an bound even in thick to a . farmer six feet hihere a
b brown ht binding down . they B g y proved t , w to p of be ' Lad chair y ' , M the agaz dus ines ty , * treasures for 1790 , were and
succeeding Such roug feeble years , ;— such their ineffable contents stories indescrib , such able disg to racefull modern y scanda ears - .
f lous rom anecdo their names tes poems of p , eople occasio in hi n g h y life por , t with raits of all the disrepu vowels table omitted hero
the or h nascent eroine , literature types , from which Newgate has been or Doctor replaced ' s b Commons y ' Chambers . Such Journal was ?
and * Household Words _? such the arena upon which women _' were about to entei _% in numbers , helping to create what we popularly
call With ' the the Press growth . ' of the press has grown the direct influence of Mute in the senate and in
educated bhe church women their on the inions world have ' s affairs found . a voice in the sheets of ten bhousand readers , op First in the list of their achievements came
_admira Ledbut ble nov because els , . not it onl because requires fiction that can knowled be written ge which without they know cart - y
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On The Adoption Of Professional Life By ...
ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE BY WOMEN . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/3/
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