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.”_