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364 A BE VIEW OF THE LAST SIX YEARS.
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Journal Six Years " Was Have Started Now...
number of a periodical , professing to be edited by ladies , caught in the window of a small shop in Edinburgh . On
making a my -very eye harmless some enquiries but very at the inefficient office , I sort found , full it of to be tales a paper , poetry of ,
wished and occasionall to improve y articles it _7 and on Miss charities Isa . Crai The g proprietor and I wrote , however several ,
articles for him ; and when I , shortly after , left England to spend the winter and spring abroad , Miss Craig undertook to
wat that ch it the mi " ht Waverle eventuall y Journal be pressed " for into me , as our I had London good hopes work .
When in Rome g , in April y , 1857 , I received from Scotland what was in fact an ojffer of the entire control of this periodical ; and
then it was that I asked Mrs . Jameson ' s advice as to the desirability of attempting to devote such a magazine to the
with special her objects usual of sympathetic woman's work kindness . She , and entered gave into her advice the point in
the affirmative . Thereupon , I wrote hack to Scotland , that I p would Journal sum laced of return in , " which the in hands June to I according be , of and Mr tak . lied l G y e -eorge the did to con ; the Hastings and trol improvement Madame of the a consid " Waverley Bodichon and erable if
desirable money the purchase , app of the magazine . Negotiations , with unsatisfactory the proprietor , ; were and Mr entered . Hastings into , advised which , us however not to , proved spend
money and effort over a property which did not appear to be in worth London either , but It took to start some afresh month , with s to a new journal our of lans our own but , ;
at the close . of 1857 the editorship of the arrange " Waverley p Journal " , Jour was relinquished nal" was commenced , and in March Miss , 1858 Hays , the and " myself English being Wom joint an ' s
editors ; the necessary money , having been collected from various good liability friends to the cause Six , in the hav form e elapsed of shares since in that a limited time
during which company 72 numbers . years have been issued , at a cost of anxiety , and responsibility far beyond what merelliterary journal
could entailinasmuch as the subject any matter of y this particular periodical touched , at all points "the dearest interests and
safeguards of civilized society , was upon partially connected with the reliious views of various bodies of Christiansand presented in
other g directions a perfect pitfall of ridicule , ever , ready to , open beneath the feet of the conductors .
It now needs to be considered in what relation this journal com could Had e it forward be from expected the in the first to sam stand any e fiel hope to d the with , any rest the expectation of able the monthlies periodical , any wish which press to .
, contained hatic no the must best at writing once be of iven the . day Such ? To an this idea question would have an emp g
364 A Be View Of The Last Six Years.
364 A BE VIEW OF THE LAST SIX YEARS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/4/
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