ABSTRACT
Some of our readers may object that our attitude to life, and to women’s life in particular, is too utilitarian. Why are you trying, they may ask, to press-gang women into jobs? Why this puritanical attitude towards work as the soul’s salvation? Would it not be better to preserve, as long as possible, the vestiges of a leisured group, or at least a category of people who are able to arrange things in their own time, to do the many odd and unremunerative jobs that need doing, and to enjoy what is really worth-while in life, friendships and books and art?
