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A BEVIEW OF THE LAST SIX YEARS. 863
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Journal Six Years " Was Have Started Now...
is t o f charac the the most considera terized remarkable t ion y a simp th productions e medical licity and question of Mrs gnit . . Jameson w This hich letter _' reveal s pen is . one th It
s tak ged e her w experienced ell-won reputation woman , for willing the sak to e come of those forward younger and without heat and without
timidity than herself , and ; is it is noble written exam alike ple of that style of writing in
which the moral character of the author penetrates every cou sent ld ence never , and attain infuses an authority to which mere eloquence
t The ted general to describe movement . when a had bill attained was introduced the level into I arliamen have at- t p
for emp securing the earnings , of married women to their own Lord discretionary use . It was the presented Lower bSir in the Erskin Upp e Perry House . The by
Broug , y long Jameson * list of si M gna ar tures Howitt was followed headed by b t numerous he names si na A ture nna s g
of eminent women y among , them that of Elizabeth Barrett was Browning not c . arried In its but immediate , it undoubtedl object this exercised effort failed a . st The bill inrong
fluence in that ; clause of the ensuing y Divorce Bill , which themselves secures to deserted and their wives families the use and of in their so doing earnings helped to
t the recurrence of all ; the worst cases of , misfortune preven resulting from the law ; for whatever may be f considered ti the .
hard abs cruel trac - ty accumulated , t when justice th e h e t arnings he band case , , re of turning t his was wife , swep cases for t off her o at famil de a ser blow y , under on that the or
bitter injustice chiefly resulted . Such cases are now legal But protection this , thoug . h fairly to be laid to its credit , was far hout from the
the spring only and effect earl and of y the summer tho defeated h of ridicule bill 1856 . , It was a liv induced el in y discussion s , throug me inst in ances the
poured was newspapers elicited on its ; supporters many ug m , muc ca h me rea forwar l , warm , d t , lasting give their symp hel ath p y . ,
Even signatures more , important le interested was in it the that question , in the were effort broug to ht obtain into
, peop of communication an effective movement in all parts were of the scattered kingdom far , and and wide that . the It germ is an s of the
since were subsequent act of due her justice to marriage working Miss to Lei recall absent consequent gh , Smith that from the , now on Eng first the Madame land introduction idea durin , and Bodichon much the of this , gre a l bill ater ady ,
g part of each year , but who has been , from first to last , an unfailing It was some friend six to months the cause later . in October 1856 that a stray
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A Beview Of The Last Six Years. 863
A BEVIEW OF THE LAST SIX YEARS . 863
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/3/
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