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18 ADELAIDE ANNE PBOCTEK.
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inent for improving the condition of women , a far more active part This than account is generall I hav y e known been asked . to writebecause afc one * time
, else I was and more the closel tas y k allied thus set with "before her in me the I work will th endeavour an any one to
other perform , friends , thoug more h I fe accustomed ar I shall scarcel to literary y do it effort the justice might which have
done . A brief narrative will be the "best form in which to convey my
information . some When plan I b cam y which e to London to promote in June the , 1859 employment , desirous of of women forming , I al
then called at ersonall once on unknown the Editor to of me the " and Eng was lish introduced Woman ' s Journ bher to , " the circl p e of ladies y connected with , this Magazine . On y that
seated evening round , so memorable the very primitiv to me e , apartment I found some which twent then y formed ladies
the Heading _Koom . After some other business had been in discussed a few words , I was presented lained to object the meeting . For * b a y moment Miss Parkes there , who was
a general silence exp , and no one my moved ; then a lady came forward , expressed her approbation of the plan , and promised her
and assistance I retired . An The app next ointment day we was met made again for and the following the lady - being day ,
of so comp Adelaide lete a Procter . stranger ; but that to I had Hie to this ask conveyed her , name no , she inform gave ation that ,
for I had never seen her poems , and had no notion that I was making For three the acqu weeks aintance Miss Procter of a distinguished came almost authoress every . day to the
little name comfortless of " our office unfurnished " and her room e she , which would we spend dignified two with or three the
and hours circulars at a time to in which drawing , encourag up lists ing of answers names and never writin cam g e letters and
answers It should of any be observe sort but d seldom that in _. thus acting , she was not riding ,
certainl try a pet ing hobb to further y or carry the and p ing lan which out of another an most idea person of le her considered , a own plan , that but imprac was was
ticable . y very From vague the , beginning I was peop grateful to her for the the support she who thus was afforded so cheerfull me ; but performing when I cam the e dru to d know gery of that a
clerk person , was a poet of no small y reputation , I was surprised as well At as the grateful end of . three "weeks the public seeming deaf to our
appeals , I grew discouraged and should have g to iven up the
At project length in we despai excited r , had some she not little encouraged attention . me Lord Eaynham persevere _, .
18 Adelaide Anne Pboctek.
18 ADELAIDE ANNE PBOCTEK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/18/
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