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French Women "Adele of Letters ," &c . ....
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_ Paris, February 17th, 1862. Ladies Wit...
great competition they would create , accept cheaper wages , and do the work as well as it Is necessary to Ibe done .
From M . Guirandet ' s letter , it appears that the Victoria Press was not the first which gave employment chiefly to women . The
Impriinerie Guirandet has been forty years in existence , and its late > director , the father of the present , was greatly esteemed as a
starving business * woman man and in a the phil streets anthrop ; and ist . fearing In the 1 to year admit 1857 her , he into saw his a ,
house in the quality of a servant , but finding that she had , when employed as a paper folder , picked up some knowledge of the
arrangement of _tyj 3 e , he determined upon relieving her distress , and rescuing her from destructionby hiring- her as a compositor at the
, same wages as he ordinarily gave . A strike was the result , and the typographic society protested against the innovation ; but M .
Guirandet said that when everybody talked so much about liberty as was then the fashionhe "was at liberty to hire an outcast woman
, at the same wages as a workman , if he chose to do so . But the tradesmen who struck were inexorable , and M . Guirandet was just
as obstinate . He would not accept their uUimafaim _, and Instead of compromising , sent to the provinces for robust country girls to do
the heavy work , and hired nimble fingered and intelligent Parisiennes to do all that required dexterous manipulation , and
anything * approaching literary business . M . Guirandet says naively ,. " Since that period I had the misfortune to lose my father , but I have
followed his wandering's , and retained in my ateliers his improved printing staff , to whom I give , as he did , the same wages I would
give to men for the work they do . I find that everything goes oii ; _. better in my establishment than in the majority of others of the
same nature ; and that in following the example set me by my
father 6 a misery , I am that neither will be prep common aring to for man a diminution and woman of . ' " wages , nor for-
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French Women "Adele Of Letters ," &C . ....
French Women " Adele of Letters , " & c . . Hurst By Julia and Blackett Kavanag . h , London Author . of "Natalie , _" '
Miss Kavanagh , in these biographical sketches , and lier clever analyses of the novels of these French authoresses , has produced a
book with the charm of a romance and the deeper interest of reality . The amount of reading she must have gone through is
something startling , when we consider that Mademoiselle de Scudery ' s romances alone were in " ten volumes apiece , and fifteen
hundred pages a volume ; " and that these have been so read and studiedas to put us in possession not only of their plots and
sub-, jects , the stories and their bearings , but to present us with graphic
sketches of the characters themselves , —their influence upon each .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/56/
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