Professional Women upon their Professions
Conversations

Published in 1895, this is a fascinating collection of conversations with a variety of Victorian professional women.

Margaret Bateson (Author)

9781108052528, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 June 2012

194 pages, 22 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.25 kg

Margaret Heitland (1860–1938), née Bateson, who became active in the suffrage movement, was the daughter of William Henry Bateson, Master of St John's College, Cambridge. In 1886 she moved to London to work as a journalist, joining in 1888 the staff on the magazine, The Queen, where she began its 'Women's employment department' feature the following year. She returned to Cambridge in 1901 upon her marriage to William Emerton Heitland, a Fellow of St John's, and she continued to be very active in the women's movement. This fascinating series of conversations with Victorian professional women first appeared in The Queen and was published in book form in 1895. Her aim was to offer inspiration and advice to young women seeking a career, and to demonstrate 'the intense happiness that merely being and doing something yields'. The wide range of professions represented include acting, dentistry, librarianship and stockbroking.

Preface
Acting
Singing
Painting
Illustration
Education
Medicine
Dentistry
Nursing
Infirmary nursing
School board work
Poor law administration
Vestry work
Education of deficient children
Physical training
Stockbroking
Accountant and auditor
Printing
Photography
Ballet dancing
Domestic training
Laundry work
Store-keeping
Clerkships
Librarianship
Indexing
Journalism
The home life of professional women.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]