The Market; or, Woman’s Position as Regards Wages and Work
IN THREE LECTURES,
DELIVERED IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1859.
I.—Death or Dishonor.
II.—Verify your Credentials.
III.—“The Opening of the Gates.”
“And could he find
A woman, in her womanhood, as great
As he was in his manhood, then, he sang,
The twain together well might change the world.”
“But he never mocks;
For mockery is the fume of little hearts.”
“For, in those days,
No knight of Arthur’s noblest dealt in scorn;
But if a man were halt or hunched,—in him,
By those whom God had made full-fed and tall,
Scorn was allowed, as part of his defect.”
Guinevere, in Idyls of the King.