Educated working women: Essays on the economic position of women workers in the middle classes

by Clara E. Collet

Educated Working Women

ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF WOMEN WORKERS IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES.

BY
CLARA E. COLLET, M.A.,
Fellow of University College London.

LONDON:
P. S. KING & SON,
ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER.
1902.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

In Memoriam.
FRANCES MARY BUSS.

CONTENTS.

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[The Economic Position of Educated Working Women. Read to the South Place Ethical Society, February, 1890]	[1]
[Prospects of Marriage for Women. The Nineteenth Century, April, 1892]	[27]
[The Expenditure of Middle Class Working Women. The Economic Journal, December, 1898]	[66]
[The Age Limit for Women. The Contemporary Review, December, 1899]	[90]
[Mrs. Stetson’s Economic Ideal. The Charity Organization Review, March, 1900]	[114]
[Through Fifty Years: The Economic Progress of Women. Frances Mary Buss Schools’ Jubilee Magazine, November, 1900]	[134]

“Because precisely, I’m an artist, sir,
And woman, if another sate in sight,
I’d whisper,—Soft, my sister! not a word!
By speaking we prove only we can speak,
Which he, the man here, never doubted. What
He doubts is, whether we can DO the thing
With decent grace, we’ve not yet done at all.
Now, do it; bring your statue,—you have room!
He’ll see it even by the starlight here;
And if ’tis e’er so little like the god
Who looks out from the marble silently
Along the track of his own shining dart
Through the dusk of ages, there’s no need to speak;
The universe shall henceforth speak for you,
And witness, ‘She who did this thing, was born
To do it,—claims her license in her work.’
And so with more works. Whoso cures the plague,
Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech:
Who rights a land’s finances is excused
For touching copper, though her hands be white,—
But we, we talk!”
“It is the age’s mood”
He said; “we boast, and do not.”