Blog post alert: The diagram shown here appears in a blog post 7 Suitable Career Options for 19th Century Women in France. Admittedly, there can have been only so many nuns, midwives and teachers in France during the entire century. But when you take into account that farm and factory workers, servants, and merchants must have made up a large portion of the female population, you realize the cliché of women 's being restricted to the domestic sphere applied only to the relatively small middle and upper classes. Iva Polansky, author of the Victorian Blog, gets it.
The diagram is also giving me an idea. Kathleen Jennings has a good post on formats for tiny stories. More about this later!