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6 AMALIE SIEVEKING.
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II.—AMAIilE SIEYEKUSTGK
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© was born i...
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233 , 000 , the latter number is only about 75 , 000 less than the number ( 308000 ) which the ordinmortality of the twenty years
would leave alive , at the end of that ary interval . So that only about twenty-four per cent , of the survivors could have married ; whereas
the proportion of marriages amongst the employed single women ¦ would be as high as eighty-one per cent . furni
Of course these calculations cannot be relied upon as shing accurate representations of the precise state of the case . They are only given as indicating perhaps to some extent the direction in
which the statistics of the subject point .
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6 Amalie Sieveking.
6 AMALIE _SIEVEKING .
Ii.—Amaiile Sieyekustgk
II . —AMAIilE _SIEYEKUSTGK ¦
^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
_^ Amalie _Wilheimine _Sieyekin _© was born in Hamburg , July 25 th , 1794 . Her familylong one of the leading families of that
town , came originall , y from Westphalia , and she always loved _, to tell that one of her ancestors had been a school-master , and
that _tlius an aptitude to teach lay in her blood . Her father was a merchantand afterwards a senator of the city , and appears to
have possessed , more literary culture than was common at that time men in his position ; but her motheran amiable ,
welleducated among womandied when she was onlfive , s oldwithout having left any particular , impression on the y mind year of the little , girl ,
who was then apparently anything but an attractive child ; so little so indeed that even this kind mother confessed to a friend that she
could not help loving her gentle youngest boy Gustav more than her fretful or Malchen little onl ( as y she daug is hter famili . arl This y termed friend throug made hout excuses her for memoirs Amalie , )
on the groun , d of ill-health , and . indeed a complaint in the bones of the child ' s hands soon after showed itselfthe traces of which _,
, never After entirel her y mother disappeared ' s death . a niece of her father ' snamed PL ,
undertook the direction of the , household and the care of , the children , and fulfilled her duty faithfully to the extent of her ability ; _biit being
xequisite only a girl ri of htl nineteen to bring , she tip had the neither orphan the famil skill y nor and the especi experienc ally the e
little girl , aiid gy the want of motherly care and culture , made itself apparent throughout Anialie ' s childhood , even more than she was
herself conscious of , though in after-life she would often express her inabiliteven to understand the poetical laments of those who look
y back on the days of their childhood as on a passed-away paradise . Pier chief companion was lier younger brother Gustavwhose mild
, quiet nature kept her own more violent disposition under some
wholesome restraint , though her active hotr tempered eldest brother Edward
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/6/
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