From Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887

"Every girl who is guided by common sense will aim at becoming a business woman. That is to say, she will try to cultivate habits of order, industry, perseverance, method and punctuality, and will do her best to learn how to conduct formal correspondence, how to keep accounts, how to manage money, and what to with savings. Besides this, she will make a point of knowing something about the laws relating to domestic life -- the renting of houses and the employment of servants, for example -- and she will push her enquiries in every direction, so as to acquire not only the right way of doing things, but the right way of forming a judgment about them." Needless to say this this series instructs the "girl" in all of these matters, including how to conduct business correspondence, financial transactions, household affairs and more. An interesting look at how all these matters were handled in the Victorian age!

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6