The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . women for self preserva-tion, and such organizations began in the first quarterof the nineteenth century. From that time, wage-earning women have fought side by side with working-men for better conditions in the labor world. Conditions were scarcely more tolerable amongwomen of the propertied and professional classes. Ifthese women were unmarried and had no income theyeither were dependents in the home of relatives orearned slender remuneration as illy-equipped musicteachers, governesses or
The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . women for self preserva-tion, and such organizations began in the first quarterof the nineteenth century. From that time, wage-earning women have fought side by side with working-men for better conditions in the labor world. Conditions were scarcely more tolerable amongwomen of the propertied and professional classes. Ifthese women were unmarried and had no income theyeither were dependents in the home of relatives orearned slender remuneration as illy-equipped musicteachers, governesses or private school teachers. It wasinevitable that their precarious and humiliating eco-nomic status should rouse them to revolt. This revoltbegan with the movement for educational privileges,and as early as 1817 Emma Willard secured the firstlegislative appropriation for girls education from theNew York legislature. Chief among those who sawthe financial value of education was Catherine Beecher,eldest sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although oneof the most energetic and masterful spirits of her day,. FRANCES WRIGHT,One of the first champions of womens rights WOMAN SUFFRAGE 1649 Catherine Beecher was an opponent of woman suffrage,and to the end of her life never saw anything incon-gruous between her pubHc activities and her custom ofsitting mute on a public platform where she was billedto make an address, while some man read her speechfor her! It was Miss Beechers opinion that womenwere the natural teachers of children, and in her Remedy for the Wrongs of Women, she writes:There are more than 2,000,000 children in this coun-try without any school. There are probably as manymore in schools taught by men, zvho could he far moreappropriately employed in shops or mills or other mas-culine employment. It would require 200,000 womento meet this demand. She thought it was contrary to Divine intention, a phrase much used by both sidesin discussing these problems, that women should drudge
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