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! ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. 19
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Hi I Bus now Marqui Something s Townshend - like a committee , Mrs . Bayn was e , fo rmed a ; ¥ e assumed thers joined the
If I " name Women . of ; " the a prospec " Society tus was for printe Promoting d , a - little the money Employment collected of ,
I and our first difficulties were over . I At the end of the summer the little circle of workers thus
I I became The collec Society ted Secretary , dispersed then assumed the for present a few a weeks more office , regular to was meet engaged form again . Miss and in November subscri Faithfuli - .
itions began to flow , in , while my home _Jpeing in , the country p I land ¦ returned onl there re-visited , leaving London the at work distant to be intervals carried . on by others ,
I In almos y t every committee there is a leading personan share anima ting work spiri t , some does one it , well in fac and t , who thus does gain more s influence than a , over fair
of the M rest iss ; F this aithfull was 's the time part being taken , by Miss Procter th preparations . Much
| for assuming the management of occup the Victoria Pressher lattendance at the office was necessarily irregularbut ,
I I frequen Society t entries not s in uffer the , for books Miss made Procter at that took period her place in , her , and hand the
ifind iback l iwriting ousiness themselves to their . attest Probabl old both possessed subscri y m her any p dili of tion members her gence recei autograp pts and of the for her h Society the powers year , if 1860 t of hey doing , look will
. I When Miss _Faifchfull gave up the secretaryship , which she Is Sdid Crowe elec a ted t and the her ins end successor tructed of three , her our months in presen her , new t it valuable was duties Miss . secretary Nor Procter when , J Miss who ane _ _.,
Srela iOrowe g J the x regular ; , she was was work conversant continual sometimes with ly in devising them the office did new , Miss some lans Procter times and ' s stud p energ ing ying in y
, p mo I wro w te to put tter them on the in _" execution Women . Watch In the makers autumn at Chris of 1859 tchurch , she _"
iwhich will be found in the December number of the " Englis _, h j _Jwrote Woraan letters _' s Journ on al the " for Society that ' s year behal . f She in the also at various times in
11861 took Miss Thackeray on a visit , of inspection newspapers to , some of the Institutions connected with the Societwhich occasioned
y , Ian Miss interesting Procter article at all in times the " repudiated Cornhill Magazin the idea e . " that poets
fought to be excused the usual duties of life , or were less _f fe _res eall n trusted ponsible y did unfit to than them its others o . wner She s for for would the the use prac argue th tical ey that made busine if s of p oe of the tic life talents geniu then s
kith _Sts possession cripples and was other a misfortune helpless , or and deficient poets oug beings ht to . be Certainl classed , y
! Adelaide Anne Procter. 19
! ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER . 19
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/19/
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