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    350 OPEN COFNClt,.

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    LII.—OPE1ST COUNCIL.

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    ¦ ««»~ To the Editors of the English Wom...

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    ¦ ^* Reprin Sail Ts . . B Mrs Y Acton . ...

    felt knowledge that it was incumbent on her to do in tnis mortal state , not only to suffer . " I have no horror of death , " she wrote a

    little before she died , " but I wish it would _please God to spare me , not only fox papa ' s and Charlotte ' s sakes , but because I l 6 Hg to do

    some good in the "world before I leave it . " In her last verses this same feeling * is still more strongly expressed . We can perceive this

    sense of duty in that ugly task she imposed on herself in the writing of " The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . " She died , and Charlotte was left

    alone . But in our next number we shall return to the period when the three sisters paced together up and down : the Haworth parlor ;

    when " The Professor , " Charlotte ' s first written last printed work , was being produced in _parallelism with " Wuthering Heights" aiid

    " Agnes _Greyt _" J . A .

    ( _jTo he continued . ) *

    350 Open Cofnclt,.

    350 OPEN COFNClt ,.

    Lii.—Ope1st Council.

    LII . —OPE _1 _ST _COUNCIL . _£ As these pages are intended for general discussion , the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed /]

    ¦ ««»~ To The Editors Of The English Wom...

    ¦ ««»~ To the Editors of the English Woman ? s Journal .

    Dear _Friends , I have not observed any notice in your Journal of a charitable institution

    as situated offerin in g relief Rose to Street a peculiar , Solio , class termed of suffering " A House and of need Charity y individuals , " and to , which many , of As them you women enter , a it narrow may be dirty interesting little street to draw called your Rose readers , Street ' attention , in the .

    immefdingy diate nei door ghbourhood of a large of smoke Soho - S dried quare old , your house eye , the may steps chance of to which fall upon bear the the marks of much traffic . Upon the door your eye reads the words " A House

    of Our Charity object for a Distressed few weeks Persons ago in visiting . _" this . _. house was to seek for a servant from among its temporary inhabitants . What we sought for we did not

    obtained find ; but the from information , the matron relating , in whom to tlie we institution discovered , an which old acquaintance I now lay before , we your readers . institution is to lum

    for The homeless primal poor object , and of if possible this to aid them in the provide discovery a temporary of employment asy . It London may in as fact are be fortunate regarded as enough a large to inn procure , where such a recommendation lod of the homeless poor to the of

    establishment , and admission by the council , are ged and boarded for a brief Walking space along . trodden the ghastl staircases y yellow-washed passages reminded , ascending of the wide and ,

    bareand much , we were strongly a huge dreary , Gast-llaus in some Grerman village or mouldering town . This idea of the " inn , " both as to the There external sound and internal of character feet of the house ,

    followed us everywhere . was a many echoing- through

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/62/