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    FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION. 317

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    " Before I had been a week in MelbourneI was fortunate enough to meet that with time a situation have been as g very overness happy . I and have comfortable now , been . here I hav six e £ weeks 60 a , year and . " during

    Miss O . went with her sister to Port Natal . They were well educatedbut had never held any situation in England as

    governesses , . She writes : — situation " Mr . B , . succeeded governess in , with two not a days sal rich ary in of procuring £ , 40 per the for annum me , which a very in whose is comfortable considered famil

    high , as laced the peop kindl le here invited are sister . Mr to remain . N . with gentleman me till she could suit y h e am rself p sh , e has y been here my up to the present , but has arranged with a .

    gentleman , six miles from Maritzburg to go this week as governess to his family for i £ 40 per annum . "

    Miss R . had been a nursery governess in England , and had before tried for she six resolved months to to seek obtain her fortune employm in ent Australia without . success In less ,

    than two months she went to a situation , of which she writes : — " I am now between find 200 Australian and 300 miles bush life north of diff Sy erent dney . from I am dear very old '

    Eng com lected f land ortable . so I , but have that still one she I pup is not too teen far years advanced old , her very for education me . I has have been no one rather to

    holding interfere neg another , with me situation in the where least— comin I I mi am ght out onl hav y to e afraid m Australia ore . to I shall do . for be My sj salary > oilt here is £ 40 for ,.

    which I consider very small for g . " remunerative respects attendan Miss W , ce having . on a emp drawing a loyment sick lost mistress mother her at connexion hom , , found very e . One , sli it throug ghtl impossible month y qualified h several after to landing in obtain years other ' ,

    she writes : and school " My for brother children throug met h from God me ' s at five help Melbourne years to be old , able and to seven suggested to transmit or eight . that . to I I you have might after commenced keep a a time day ,

    hope , th shilling ough I a have week had . I many have the expenses promise . I of have more twelve , and hope children to , increase each pays it to a - children

    twenty . They are all respectable . " the The eldest Misses sister H wrote ., two sisters remitting , went the out whole to Natal sum advanced . In Jane them last .

    , particularl "We have y kind made to land us a , great in I should obtaining many nice us much situations friends like here , & mother c ; , and Mr . to I B j shall . oin has us n been eve but r

    regret do not leaving think it Eng advisable . at present very . I like the free my easy life - people , lead herebut I am afraid what is pleasure to us , would be privation to mamma . "

    , you produced Fourthly its needs by , the having . Society This thus Society ' s working shewn , like , I you all now other some proceed confined societies of to the lay to , results before loans needs

    money once and its subscribed . working But as expenses its would assistance enable are extremel to it emi to grants continu y small is e , a its certai operations n amount for , ,

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    Female Middle-Class Emigration. 317

    FEMALE MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION . 317

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/29/