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194 women's work in charity.
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on onl often y leg the on a impediments the no less narrow arduous range surrounding task of emp than loyments as these the , exercise the available combat , of for the with women duties which , but in is
volved To discover in those the emp true loyments nature . of the vocation of woman , the apwhich it _would
reflection insure propriate to and her objects inquiry the of hi labor ghest which , advantage and it imports the methods , is all still reall b a y y fruitful interested matter in the of
cause It is of an progress anomal to y endeavor in , the existing to solve and organization to define . of the work of in the kind of
women loyment that exactl do we y in find inverse the benefits ratio to and the advantages superiority derivable from
emp , cognised it . The female Their dili servant and is respected shopkeeper and have as a rule their well position rewarded re- .
. gence , factories Rising successivel and to dressmakers y , we come and to the needlewomen assistants , in whose various endurance
manu-Another our poets , step have and immortalised we arrive and at our a class philanthrop whose ists sufferings have mourned , because . liable to be
more other more utterl subtile section y , repudiated of are the not communit less , morall acute y , — y and we and there whose mean financiall is the services class y , than calle are engaged that d for of in any but the
how education insure of the the due young reward . Revision s of industry , how greatl elevate y the position ; of the governessand redeem from the discount caused by too great a
pressure avenues of on a honorable few , sources and of remunerative emolument , except exertion by , opening which while up fresh in miht furnish
many a stimulus "We instances aware to nobler answering that impulses to advocat the , need and e the the of entry gain attainment , of in women others of loftier into g path ends s ? of
are of enterprise prejudice hitherto . But monopolised to confine them by to men merel , is to y subterranean assail the very _channels citadel
of action without the hope of acknowledgment or distinction , is it not to degrade them into jel condition little better than which servile ? annot
incited surel Moreover y be by disregarded pecuniary , women possess with need impunit that a moral work y . necessit is It is called y not for alone for action , but in those of among existence classes c tlie
resulting comparativel becomes the from y source affluent the of narrow an ranks indescribable sp women here of lament ennui action a by assi monotony which gned they them reproach . This ob
society , and almost Providence , for the misery of inaction and -
194 Women's Work In Charity.
194 women ' s work in charity .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/50/
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