ABSTRACT
While planning this chapter I chanced to read, in a late number of the North British Quarterly, a paper headed ‘Employment of Women,’ which expressed many of my ideas in forms so much clearer and better than any into which I can cast them, that I long hesitated whether it were worth-while attempting to set them down here at all; but afterwards, seeing that these Thoughts aim less at originality than usefulness – nay, that since they are but the repetition in one woman’s written words of what must already have occurred to the minds of hundreds of other women, – if they were startlingly original, they would probably cease to be useful, – I determined to say my say. It matters little when, or how, or by how many, truth is spoken, if only it be truth.
