Life: August 12, 1833 - December 30, 1913
Birthday: August 12
Death: December 30
I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
source: Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53
topic: Mean, Earning, Poor, Very Mean, Earning A Living