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The Chimney-Corner

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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. . .I do trust that Miss Blackwell's band of educated nurses will not be long in coming, and that the number of such may increase till they effect a complete revolution in this vocation. A class of cultivated, well-trained, intelligent nurses would soon elevate the employment of attending on the sick into the noble calling it ought to be, and secure for it its appropriate rewards."

"There is another opening for woman," said I,—"in the world of business. The system of commercial colleges now spreading over our land is a new and a most important development of our times. There that large class of young men who have either no time or no inclination for an extended classical education can learn what will fit them for that active material life which in our broad country needs so many workers. But the most pleasing feature of these institutions is, that the complete course is open to women no less than to men, and women there may acquire that knowledge of book-keepin. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I have to confess the four stars for this anthology were bolstered by the E M Lynley story 'The Christmas Bonus'. This was easily my favourite of the three. The characters were endearing and the story's premise hit one of my 'kinks', well, trope would probably be a better definition. It would possib