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292 WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?
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sand ¦ instead would pounds suffice of merel , her would y ; * liow and bestow to the live father upon upon her who its a gave benefit interest _, or , of a left ittance which much her of less he a thou could sum
not calculate the results , instead of a miserable pthirty or In at France most fifty it pounds is considered per annum morall . y incumbent on every parent
to settle his daughter in life , and as a dot is an essential part of or the trade matrimonial considers contract himself , every bound father to find in a a respectable ortion for his profession irl in pg
relative measure to his position in life . We may complain with justice to that French thus women to constr and ain that the deepe the wrong st affections doing must is a bring great wrong a host
of moral young evils in its train , ; still we ought to confess that , according to his when his daug lig she ht hter , the : French he feeds he father , clothes settles does , her and his in best educates life for in the that her worldl in particular childhood y welfare line , and of of
business which grows is up considered best ( a line of business which the true " Saturday career , Review ) and he '' affirms allots to to her be emp a , certain haticall sum y of her household as own capital and , her in order only
in that the she marriage may conduct life that on terms domestic of mutual business respect and obli economy gation . terms He does equivalent not ask to any board man and to take loding her and in as no " salary junior required partner , " ; he on
irritating does not allow question it to , whether be an open her , and usefulness g in , some balances households the a al substantial constantl terms in y benefits she receives at his hands . She enters on equ
nal management her world woman to ' s , capacit constitute just as y , he taking the takes double his her money little fund fortune and out his of and work which her in they household the create
extermarri their well age as -being a commercial . English firm readers ; they will will shrink say that he from a hu ives thus sban her d regarding and wife
what are one she , and ives that him he ; that must such not a wei state gh of what feeling g is monstrous against , and destructive g to all -fche best and holiest interests of married life ; be
look wholl and to I y quite indepen it as a agree m dent aintenance with of these them . considerations But , I nobod think y that can , that marriage deny no woman that should it is should very
generall a confusion y considered in their in minds that lig betwe ht , even en the by the Christian best peop theory le ; there of the is
union of husband and wife , and the political economy which would throw the livelihold of all wives upon the earnings of all husbands . it is onlwhen
they b They y the are want " startled Saturday to reconcile by Heview some the very , " two that broad things all women assertions together who , , and such fail to as marry that y made may
be considered as having " failed in business , " that they are roused up to declare that such a theory of marriage is abominable among
a Christian Therefore peop I would le . ask all my readers to settle this question quite
292 What Can Educated Women Do?
292 WHAT CAN _EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/4/
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