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Page 100 - ... all events, quite close application and earnestness. Skill in drawing is a key that admits to a wider range of arts than I can readily enumerate, and successful and profitable employment in any engraving depends on that. I am chairman of the committee on instruction of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in that capacity do all I can (as do also the other directors) to encourage female talent. We have seven or eight ladies among our students, and they certainly...
Page 115 - ... the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania...
Page 30 - Miss Brown, educated at an Orthodox Theological Seminary ; — you smiled at the name of Reverend Miss. She has since been invited to settle by several congregations of unblemished orthodoxy, and has passed on, looking further. It seems to me that woman, by her peculiar constitution, is better qualified to teach religion than any merely intellectual discipline.
Page 4 - ... According to the rate of compensation generally understood to be received by Mr. Bancroft, the present sale of each volume of his yields him more than $15,000, and he has the long period of forty-two years for future sale. Judge Story died, as has been stated, in the receipt of more than $8,000 per annum ; and the amount has not, as it is understood, diminished. Mr. Webster's works, in three years, can scarcely have paid less than $25,000. Kent's Commentaries...
Page 3 - ... imagine, at the head of living authors for the amount received for his books. The sums paid to the renowned Peter Parley must have been enormously great, but what has been their extent I have no means of ascertaining. Mr. Mitchell, the geographer, has realized a handsome fortune from his schoolbooks. Professor Davies is understood to have received more than $50,000 from the series published by him. The Abbotts, Emerson, and numerous other authors engaged in the preparation of books for young...
Page 374 - Every precaution is taken to secure only those who are respectable, and the associations surrounding them are calculated to elevate, rather than degrade. Most of them are able to pay enough for their board to secure the right kind of home associations. These establishments, except in emergencies like the present, retain their hands all the year; while those in a majority of other houses fluctuate with their business and are unoccupied three or four months in the year. Bookfolding is paid for by the...
Page 22 - ... from a single publisher, in which he says that to Messrs. "Willis, Longfellow, Bryant, and Alston, his price was uniformly $50 for a poetical article, long or short — and his readers know that they were generally very short; in one case only fourteen lines. To numerous others it was from $25 to $40. In one case he has paid $25 per page for prose. To Mr. Cooper he paid $1,800 for a novel, and $1,000 for a series of naval biographies, the author retaining the copy-right for separate publication...
Page 43 - York, the terms are: 20 lessons for gentlemen, $25; kO lessons for ladies, 33. Teachers of Infant Schools. Teaching is interesting to those that love children. But I would say, let not those without patience and tenderness, or those whose feelings can in an hour change from the boiling to the freezing point, attempt to teach young children. In ordinary schools, young children are liable to be either cramped or stunted. If children must be placed at school early, let it be where they can exercise...
Page 82 - Accomptanf (Lasingburgh, 1797), p. 54, that, in writing denominate numbers, he separates lead over the comma, but during the latter part of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century the comma in the position of 2,5 was used quite extensively.
Page 103 - Miss F., at Elmira, New York, carries on business for herself in wood engraving. She learned it at the Cooper Institute, four years ago. The pupils of that institute canvassed for work, some two and two, but she went alone, and principally in the lower part of the city. They visited publishers mostly—she went to manufacturers. She got an order for $500 worth of engraving at a gasfixture manufactory. I have heard that ladies in the school of design, New York, receive the same price for wood engraving...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work |
| Author | Virginia Penny |
| Publisher | Walker, Wise & Company, 1863 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jun 29, 2007 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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