compositoress

The female compositors are the most refined, sensible, and practically educated of all the women workers in busy, pushing Boston, where they serve in almost every capacity. Daily the written thoughts of our best and ablest men lie on their cases; the prose and poetry of this and other lands pass continually through their hands—thus, while they labor they obtain knowledge. This very labor, wearing as it is on life and health, improves the mind and educates the poor compositoress in a manner more useful, self sustaining, and systematic than that afforded by our fashionable boarding schools.