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    FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGBATION. 813

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    LYIIL—FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION*

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    needs Emi In Society bring gration 's in...

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    Female Middle-Class Emigbation. 813

    FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGBATION . 813

    Lyiil—Female Middle-Class Emigration*

    LYIIL—FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION * A Paper bead at the Social Science Congkress , by J . E . Lewin .

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    to needs say . a B few efore words doing regar so , however ding its , founder I may perh , Mis ap s s Rye p , and her past and present exertions in the cause of female emigration .

    the Miss numbers Rye was of women first induced possessing to take a up certai this n amount subject , b of y educa seeing

    tion Office , who and app it was lied unsuccessfull therefore , this y class for work for at which her Law she was Copy first ing

    interested , . She wrote for itand worked for it , and finally established Society , which , in May labours 1862 especiall , the , Female y to prom Mid o dle te evolence Clas the emi s Emi gration however gration of

    despatched would having educated not on women let various du her ring . stop occasions the Her here latter energy ; and offered half , several and her of ben the assisted colonial year passages governments 1862 , large , she ,

    British parties of Columbia , working . women These to parties Queensland consisted , New chiefl Zealan y— , almost d , and like

    sent Female entirel out y— Middl by of Miss servants e Clas Rye s _, ' dressmakers s Emi individual gration , Society exertions and the . , As and : it not they has by been were the

    asserted sent to Queensland publicly , that , it seemed a party necessary of ninety to -six state governesses the real those facts was

    of who the work case with , and her to would explain ever , that commit neith the er Miss absurdity Eye , of nor sending

    such numbers of governesses , at one time to any colonial port . party The Society —and far rarel more y sends generall more y than only six two of at its intervals emigrants of in from one

    , two With to three regard months to Miss . Rye's present efforts , it is for difficult the to

    her h of overrate ers female elf assisted tak the emi e importan passages charg gration e of . ce for the The of one what party Otago hundred she she government is now accepted women doin , g having the if she offer offered woul cause and d

    went out to Dunedin in order , thus practically to acquaint , valuable hers exposure on their elf with service voyage of the the to difficulties evils as the well of cause the as , dangers , afterwards Emi of grant order , and . Dep and trials In 6 t decency Dunedin of was emi a grants ; , most her her to tak

    remonstrances having induced the Otago authorities e

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/25/