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FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION. 815
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Needs Emi In Society Bring Gration 'S In...
indeed say , that to she the rendered mother country no small itself service , when to she the colonies elicited , in and a humsentiments
public on so important journal an a expression subject . of In such in lik the e just manner colonies and she ri ane will ht endeavour
to awakenwherever she goes , gfeeling on . where the subject with , of the fem greatest ale emigration kindness ; and she hosp has been itality received and has every had
excellent her return opportunities to land for observation to state exactl , which y the will qualities , enable to her ba ,
to soug on be ht met for , the in dangers selecting Eng to and be , guarded sending against out emi , and grants the demands of every
class . In every , port she enlists the sympathies and services of ladies Society as - — correspondents and how valuabl of e the their Female co-operation Middle work is Class to which that Emi Society gration will , .
will be seenwhen we come to consider its , we now its objects proceed its , to mode do , in of the working order its I hav results e before and mentioned its needs . , viz ; :
First " then , the object of the , Female Middle , Class Emigration Society ,, is to send out to the colonies educated between women , '
little finishing including beyond governess und teaching er that on head Eng the one lish the han correctl larg d , e and y class , on a woman the lying other who . can In all do a the hands
well cases as , however of the head , the ; Society and the requires most highl education y accomp of lished applicant , as would be rejected were she to profess total ignorance of
housedomestic hold work m , cooking attersin , and the the event like of ; her or were being to called refuse upon to assis to t do in
so are . taken It is hardl to ensure y necessary , good moral to add character , that all , in possibl those e who precautions are sent
out . Wh Secondl en Miss y , H the first Society took ' s mode Fem of ale working Middle , Class is as Emi follows gration : — , up
proper she found protection that ye the for two the things emigrarits most needed on their were arrival , money in , and the had sufficient
money of colonies landing to . pay Few in their a strugg distant passag ling country e educated , and fewer unknown women still woul and d unprotected face the ready risk , little friendl
Emi i coun gnorant gration sel . where For Agency it to must turn , public alway for a s ni or be ght private remembere ' s lod , ging hel d ped or and th a at this therefore no class existing for of y
loans them women The Society there . They suificien were supp were lies no t security assisted the not firs domestic t passages of to these accepted servants requirements and app no , licants emigrant by ; granting and depdts the .
position second which , it on by sends receive establishing . the These emi correspondents correspondents , ts on their , in gener arrival every ally colonial direct ladies them of port good to to
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Female Middle-Class Emigration. 815
FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION . 815
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/27/
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