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426 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English Woman s Jo...
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426 Open Council.
426 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English Woman S Jo...
To the Editors of the English Woman s Journal . _Brocklej , Lewishain , December 16 , 1861 .
LADIES Having , for some time perused the pages of your Journal , I feel much lence pleasure and in interest expressing of its my articles sense of ; but the I importance was much of pained its aim and , and surprised the excel to
-Bay notice ly , in & c the , the last writ number er attributes , that in the reviewing devoted the labors works of these of Mrs noble . Wi - g hearted htman , Englishwomen as _indirectly resulting from the Crimean war ; and although
there is much in the article that must commend itself to all , I cannot help entering niy most earnest protest against the assertion that " it ( the war ) has different left behind tal it e nothing come from but thousands mercies and of desolate blessings homes . " Methinks not onl I in hear this a land very y
but in France , Russia , and Turkey ; and none but the , Father of all can , minate measure the Althoug misery h , we or see say little when of the it now long the legacy Times of woe once and the evil most shall zealous
ter-. , , advocate of the Russian war , now speaks of it as " a great mistake , " and says " never I think was almost so great the onl a sacrific y murmur e made that for ever so worthless arose against a result the beloved . " Prince ,
for whom our hearts are now in deep mourning , was that he did not join so heartil few y in who that justif great it war now -cry or attempt as many to would do so . have desired ; but there are
very The writer continues y in a , strain that sounds very much like another verthe sion work of Tennyson s before 's alluded phrase to , " are The the long result , long s of c peace anker and of peace not of . " war I believe ; and that that
it in is the onl period accidental before the that war the , woman fruits was are now rising appearing to her true . Surel dignity y , the and great that Exhibition y was not a sign of an " enervated " state of public feeling ; and
trul to touch y there any has heart always , without been enoug needing h " sorrow a special meeting wholesale us on slaug our own hter hearth for that s " purpose . I am , dear Ladies , vours , & c ,
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
To the Editors of the English Woman ' s Journal *
Ladie In s , Journal for December lastI observed the following passage your , under " It the is probabl head of y not passing generall events y known : — that the Oxford and Cambridge
exa-C minations ambrid are as open those to who women . . the . . senior Oxford examinations offers greater receive advantages the title than of Associate ge of , Arts . " pass
gentlemen Mr . Finches referred , of Clarendon to for further House information , Remming . ton I Road wrote , was to him one stating of the what cerning I the had senior seen in the your other Journal relating , and to he the sent junior me two Oxford papers ex , — aminations one
con-, , , but " Mr in a . Finches few days regrets I received having the following to inform intelli Miss gence that from the him delegates : — at cannot be admitted candidates at the
Oxford have determined that ladies as local examinations . " I waited to see if a notice to the above effect would appear in your
made coming Journal in Journal the for January previous lest . false number As no hopes , contrad I beg should you iction will be was insert raised given my that in letter it the to the in education the statement forth of
women was at length , considered a matter of public interest .
Yours truly , X . Y .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/66/
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