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ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE BY ...
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which affcer they tlie have female attained members mature of a family of causes middle a station grievous live waste together of
years , room moral are and too men li t k e th power e famou . Four s cat or s of five K ladies ilkenny inhabiting ; they mu one tuall sitting y detailsts
vour each other ' s time , leaving nothing but " the " or remnan x rooms con _> £ useful tinues , and hours to lay bi . t aside s of The grea the aristocracy ter necessities separation manage of . the It is better one our , middle the , they refinements class have incon which more of
t venience he other wh ran ich k , is entailing too often on onl itself y matched an amount by the of amount household of house - -
hold ill-temper thus , frittered . lose all the charm of periodical activity , Days away
of that wondrous play of action and re-action in which the animate Creation exists and delights . Goethe said , —
regular dawn " That ht and recurrence the twili etual happ ght , iest change of rest the man and greatest of was rising enj lie oyment , number who food bes and which of t understood fasting simp the , mind p winter leasures how could to and , secure to summer at whom once the
larity broug remember the tide , and s perp of and the the antici sea spiritual . pate We . set tides are The forth yet pulses of in the man the of unconscious ' s nature being ebb beat and subjects with of flow the a beautiful in of old unison i times p lanetary regu with and
in influence stellar regard constellations ' to as the trul _j y _> rimal as was law of order , it is superstitions with our frail humanity as , with
" And Thou the dost most preserve ancient , the heavens stars from throug wrong h th . , ee are fresh and strong . "
Now it is in l this vital tabl princi deficient ple of All order the that the lives all the of average elastic power
less w spring omen uncertain which are so regular current amen of intermittent y their hours . action . It does bestow not , is matter , lost in when the aim they
go den shopp tial and ing imperious or when they regularity set out of on the their digestive calls , and organs but for , they the would provif f
the have chief but sources little use of for enj oyment clock included ; and the in y the are org defrauded anisation of one hu -
mani Another ty . objection to the adoption of professionaFlife by women is
thus dauhters expressed expensive : — _" How special can educations fathers , be when expected the probability to give is their that
w marriage hich g we will are put fain a bar onl to to their ask ever what repay happens ing it among with success the artistes ? To ; y
how it is that they continue to combine , professional excellence with domestic domestic life life ? is Let always it not sacrificed be actresses assumed ; many and in women reply that have have in fulfilled such conquered cases both
careers admirablwelland if singers the the That difficulty scul the ptor subject , , and in y sp even is ite beset of , the their p with hysician exciting difficulties , mi vocation ght we do do likewise , surel not wish y . the to painter deny ; , these _difficulties
disposed but since of at the without first touch any apparent of real necessity evil result we , we see believe that the
On The Adoption Of Professional Life By ...
ON THE ADOPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE BY WOMEN . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/9/
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