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210 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English "Womarfs J...
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To The Editors Of The- English Woman''S ...
which I am told they have to copy exactly , but sometimes it is not punctuated—and this is what the printers seem to think will be the great
stumblingblock to women compositors—because they have to punctuate while they they are c composing tuate are first ithow apprenticed from do the they manuscri to get printing on pt ? . They can How hardl learn is it y it then read mechanicall that manuscri some y pt boy while , let s when alone they
pun understandings are learning , the that trade they . Then cannot has learn _Mature what provide these d ignorant girls with boy such s can dull ? Printers of the work also connected say , " The with work the is too compositors heavy for that women is ; heavy " there —and is onl this y one to part my
own knowledge , men are employed to perform at the Victoria Press . , . _JSTotwithstanding all their opposition to bringing women into the printing trade , they now see it can be done , because it is done .
The trade seems to think this movement will tend to lower wages ; but how course I cannot the reduction tell , unless of men women 's wages were would paid lower be inevitable wages than ; but men as , they then are of
paid tell how from it the will compositors lower wages ' . scale If women of prices were , as _jD Mis aid s lower Faithfull than the told standard me , I cannot rate ,
the work would not be any more remunerative than needlework , and the suitable very object and more of this remunerative benevolent lad emp y loyment would be than destroyed needlework . ] SFamel , for y women , a more of
the middle class . There seems to be a strange jealousy existing among mechanics should not and talent artisans with , them of women be thoug receiving ht as much the same of , and wages remunerated as men ; wh the y
samewithout a distinction to sex ? The same as in the world of art , if a not the lady a same paints , good as actress a if beautiful executed receive picture by as a much gentleman , is it app not lause _thoLig ? In , and ht the as as theatrical mu mu ch ch of remuneration and world remunerated , too , does as a
good actor ? Then why should such a difference be made among mechanics and artisans ? I saw from the " visitors' book" kept at the Victoria Press , that there was of the _hihexclassesthese
visitors no lack will of visitors render , the most Victoria of whom Press were material service g * . Some . I observers hope of the Victoria Press whom I have come in contact with , visit this establishment
with the most remarkable ideas—they seem to imagine the young aspirants to the compositing trade are an amalgamation of curiosities congregated there the learning _xmder necessity charitable a business of being ausp wherewith ic supported es , instead to support b of their respectable themselves parents young or _, instead friends girls of ; independentl and being the under said y .
parents or friends have , it appears y , to pay a premium of ten pounds for their apprenticeship , exclusive of the legal expense of the indentures .
In conclusionI would submit the propriety of combining the whole of , process bookmaking to emp under loy as the many one roof women —printing as possible , binding , then , and an publishing author could —and deliver in the
""" Ins manuscript to the Victoria Press , and without any further trouble would have his book printed , bound , and published . A .
210 Open Council.
210 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English "Womarfs J...
To the Editors of the English "Womarfs Journal . I find Ladies the , following among Memoranda intended for your use , and
mislaid during illness . Welsh Mo " nday The co evening unties wealth , of The " is the more City City of than , " London said equal the the to Ch City th an at cell p r o ope r twenty r of is the richer -five Exchequ Eng than lish Liver er , and on
-. , , po Withi ol , Mancheste n the precincts r , and Birming of this noble ham put , this together unrivalled . " city , is a moderate _sized of
house bearing on its "door in ostentatious brass this inscription , City
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/66/
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