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A HOUSE OF MERCY. 13
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. at A few This High days institution ga...
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The Annual Reports Of The Governesses' B...
have put down suicide , and the only objection we have to make is that the article ignores facts . The exact number of women who
are unmarried or widowed , and such proportion of them as have to work for their breadare to be found stated in the census . Female
pauperism ( in the workhouses , ) can be estimated , and female emigration toldto a head : nobody need dispute about " exaggeration "
till they have , checked it by figures . But , supposing women to have as good chances of escaping destitution as men ( which they have no € ) ,
still everybody knows that destitution is for them a more awful thing ; that there are depths of horror , of degradation , into which
men cannot fall ; and that , without any ugly reflections as to the comparative chances of the university tutor or the governess , there
is cogent reason why prosperous Englishwomen , and those many good men who are willing to help them , should try _"with might and
main to help their own sex to further industrial gains , and every reason why the young working women of the day should cast about
for what their hand findeth to do , remembering that , after all , it is themselves who must clear the path to new occupations .
" Who would he free , herself must strike the blow _"
A House Of Mercy. 13
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. At A Few This High Days Institution Ga...
. at A few This High days institution gate ago ; a I penitentiary visited is princi the pall London for y the supported most Diocesan unfortunat by Penitentiary voluntary e of women contribu , situ . ated
tionsand is calculated to receive about eighty penitents . An ornamental , cross over the entrance gate hasI believe , unfortunately
, created a prejudice in some minds against this Penitentiary as being Eoman Catholicwhereas it is Protestant , a clergymen of the Church
tion of Eng being land , at who its , resides head as with Warden his wife . and family near to the
institu-The , impression left upon my mind by my visit is so agreeable , that I would willingly make others acquainted with this benevolent
asy The lum for lace the itself desp is ised a large and unhappy mansion . , standing in its own grounds ,
surrounded The Warden p by hi deep gh walls linterested ; a very in health this y and , airy other , spacious social abode reform . s ,
and who has long , devoted y himself to similar labours , has been now at the head of this establishment somewhat less than two years . iate dressThe
He received us in his room , wearing his colleg . room is furnished simply , with oak chairs and an oak library table . mottoes above the
A poor's-box hangs upon the wall ; are painted
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/13/
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