A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia
Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth), 1829-1902
English
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[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end.]
A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor;"
or,
A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
Late of Berlin, Prussia
Edited ByCaroline H. Dall,
Author of "Woman's Right To Labor,"
"Historical Pictures Retouched," &c. &c.
"Whoso cures the plague,
Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech."
"And witness: she who did this thing was born
To do it; claims her license in her work."
Aurora Leigh.
1860.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
Walker, Wise,and Co.
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
To the Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, Faithful Always To "Women And Work," and Oneof the Best Friends of The New-England Female Medical College, The EditorGratefully Dedicates This Volume.
"The men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry,
'A woman's function plainly is ... to talk.'"
"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."
"None of us is mad enough to say
We'll have a grove of oaks upon that slope,
And sink the need of acorns."
Preface.
It is due to myself to say, that the manner in which the Autobiography issubordinated to the general subject in the present volume, and also themanner in which it is veiled by the title, are concessions to themodesty of her who had the best right to decide in what fashion I shouldprofit by her goodness, and are very far from being my own choice.
Caroline H. Dall.
49. Bradford Street, Boston,
Oct. 30, 1860.
Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor"
It never happens that a true and forcible word is spoken for women, that,however faithless and unbelieving women themselves may be, some noble mendo not with heart and hand attempt to give it efficiency.
If women themselves are hard upon their own sex, men are never so in
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