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Compositoress means Alternative form of compositress..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of compositress..
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.
We are certainly in favor of woman’s rights to the full extent demanded by these compositor-esses, and we would not be at all surprised should they be able to make the Union folks sorry for their harshness towards them.
The beautiful woman you met last week surrounded by wealth, and the best men and women in the land eager to claim her attention, used to work early and late as a compositoress on a daily newspaper.
One of the lady “compositoresses” in the “side show” is said to have picked the winners to the extent of several hundred last week, and all owing to “Fatty” Payne as a mascot.
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Compositoress means Alternative form of compositress..
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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.
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