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SI 6 FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION.
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be Without respec ent t irel able such unable lodg co - g operation to s , work and assi in and st the th it is colonies therefore in obt , ainin the that g S ocie Miss t loyment y would _H ' s .
present service y sin securing ; correspondents at , every port ye she visits , are so pec , uliarly valuable .
N fif ty T w hirdl -four Zealand y women , results Bri have . t — ish Since C emi olumbia gra the ted Society , and by it India was s assis formed . tance Fourteen , , in to May Australia of 1862 these _^ ,
went out to or , with brothers , one , to friends , one to sisters , and for in three men to tioning situations , f tha rom secured t t t he S colonies ocie for t them y has and — for e w ceived e I have three hope special ap t ha lica p t leasure as tions its
work governesses gets more known , the , number may of applica , tions will increaseFrom of the emits there has not yet been
time to . hearbu many t information has gran been received regarding thirt-twoand , of theseonltwo had been unsuccessful in
obtaining y , a comfortable home , y , and fair salary . The following extracts from letters written by those sent outmay prove
interesting Miss ID . . S . was unable to teach more than the , rudiments of
f Eng ully lish during , French six , and ths Music for . She loymen had been t in E seeking ngland unsuccess , when she
sailed for Sydney . She writes thence : present " After engagement waiting five as weeks , and to getting MrsP very ' schildren anxious , five I obtained in number my
governess . . , , and varying holds from about eleven a thousand to five acres years of old land . Mr ; they . P . are is what exceeding they l call y kind a grazier , and I ,
¦ in am that very time comfort to rep able ay , you and the should _j £ 20 I so remain kindly twelve advanced months . " , I shall be enabled
The whole loan has been repaid since last March . Six months later , Miss S . writes : —
althoug " I do h there not a are t all many regret disagreeables the step I , still have I taken am quite , in sure coming I could out here not have , for kind friends
done so well at Lome ; and I have met with very many . " mention Most persons that she will has agree been with earnin Miss from S . £ in 50 thi to s £ op 60 inion , annum when I
ever since , she took her first colonial g engagement . per , £ 20 Miss G annum . G ., more in the than situation thirty y which ears of she ag quitted e , was receiving to to
Australia per ; she also , went to Sydney , and writes thence;— go school "I had . I did offer not make seven an sit effort uations to obtain one mon the t situation h , so I would I now no hold t acce : pt a my
salary is _^ £ 70 per annum . " dea Miss fand H ., had althoug never h succeeded amiable , and in earning well educated more , than was £ sli 30 ghtl per y
annum , , in England . She writes from Melbourne : —
Si 6 Female Middle-Class Emigration.
SI 6 FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/28/
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