Excerpt from Women and Their Work
It is a truism to talk of the change that has taken place in the position of women during the nineteenth century, and, like other truisms, this one also is somewhat of a neglected truth. People assume the fact, and they rejoice at it or bewail it, and comment on the inconveniences or the advantages which accompany it; but they hardly realize what it means. It has been said that there is more difference between the England of the present day and that of the beginning of the nineteenth century, than there was between the England of 1800 and the England of Charles I. And if this is true of the whole state, it is certainly true of the position of women. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, speaking generally, only two of the occupations which women now practise were open to them, and those were domestic life and society.
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