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    Woman Lectures 'S Ri Delivered Ght To La...

    fitted and loom out and to attend others to manned trade the . A shi very ps ; while interesting the women letter from laid aside Mrs . distaff Eliza inson ives articulars /

    to she Barney Boston says to , ' semi Mr all . - the Hi annuall gg dry- y goods to g renew and me groceries their many stock p were . kept The . by heroine ' women Fifty of years , who ' Miriam - ago went the most influential of commercial She not

    Coffin' was one of our women . onl service y traded . Since in dry that -goods time , and I can provisions recall near , hut seventy fitted vessels women for who the families have merchant suc and

    cessfully engaged in commerce , brought up and educated large , retired tinent that with drove a competence the _ISTantucket . It was women the influence out of of the cap trade italists ; and from they the Con only - California emimade it

    resumed sary . Five it a few dry-goods years since and , a when few the large groceries are gration now carried neces on by - ¦ women , as also one druggist ' s shop . ' Mrs . Graskell , think in her at ' Life Haworth of Charlott and e

    Bronte , ' mentions a woman living as a druggist , I , ; _JSTantueket I have always drugg been ist is surprised doing well that . this In Pennsy business lvani was a , not the left Quaker to women view . of Oar the into trade at the

    period duties . and One rights lady of in women Philadel contributed phia transferred to throw a many large wholesale business same to two interesting nephews , and account died of wealth two y . irls I who saw got a letter permissi the other on there day to , which sell a little gave

    an g they invested stock boug in their in ht . their a dozen father father tapes ' s shop out . . . The The One other little began had tape with - three seller sixty dollars married -two - cents , In and a , carried till which few she years her she ,

    husband eight thousand dollars ; while the single sister kept on accumulated " I have twenty spoken thousand of English dollar female s , _j and ) rinters took . a The poor first boy paper into partnershi _eyer issued p . in bbrother of _Franldinat

    Rhode died earl Islan and d , was his printed widow continued y a the work Dr . . She was , aided _Newport bher . two He That Colony daughters she , and y , , found swift , in time 1745 and , to printed correct do something an compositors edition else . of you the She may laws was jud , made ge in from 346 printer folio this y adver pages to the - .

    tisement : — , ¦ wi thout " * The the prin offensive ter hereof smell prints which linens commonl , calicoes y a , ttends sillc , e linen tc ., in printed figures here , in . livel * y and durable colors ,

    Tory " Margaret that the Draper English printed _Government the ' Boston pensioned News her Letter when , ' and the war was drove so good her a away . Clementina Bird edited and printed the ' Virginia _G-azette , ' and

    Thomas Jefferson wrote for her paper . Penelope Russell also printed the * Censor " When , ' in we . Boston record , in these 1771 things . , and think how women are pressing into leasant to find action to sustain

    them printing . - At offices a recent in our Printers time , ' it Convention is p held in S a pring generous field , 111 ., the following resolution was adopted : —

    adopted "' Whereas , been , found The a employment decided benefi of t females as regards in printing moral influence -offices as and compositors steady worlt has , and , wherever also as offering better "wages to a deserving class recommends : therefore to , be its it— members the of females

    " ' ResolvedThat this Association employment , whenever practicable . ' in Mrs . tell us that failures were very uncommon _Nantucket

    Barney s while fortunes _^ women in Boston managed were the founded "business bwomen ; and some one of of whom the largest I remember and safest rode

    corner in her own lest chariot the banks , and should kept fifty not be y thousan as cautious d , dollar in s their in gold dealings , in tlie as chimney herself , .

    While Street , , writing at the these age of pages ninety , I have -five visited . Her such name a woman is Hillman , still . living She : in lived Prince for

    business sixty-four , and years speculations in the same on house a stri , p and of real made estate her . property Her lather by a , large Mr . Will grocery iam

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/57/