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WOMEN IN ENGLAND. 169
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* !For Five Centuries Koine Lield Britai...
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the were Circes held ; to of be classi witches c times of mi The ghtier scald power s sang and verses wilder in their terrors honour than .
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, his "It " long was shi ther p" e upon " the Michelet stormy billows " that . woman became the
companion death of She man withdrew in , his says danger not even s , united from , the to b his attle destiny -fieldbut in life watched as in
. , and hovered over him—the fairy president of the combat—the fair and awful walkgriarwho bore awayas a gathered flower , the
, , spirit Indeed of the we exp can iring select warrior no better . " * le than that before us , to examp
prove and of that hi , gher the sp asp iritual iration element than in in men women . the S has pite been of the always of lawlessness the purer vital
and and b leading arbarity sentiment of the times of the , they age . were Their delicate exponents instinct refined and purified the national mind . They exercised a control at once
portance fostered subtle and , the they imperious growth became of . true openl The hlafdi reli y earliest acknowle gion bread , converts and dged , divider graduall as to Christianity the y of rising centre the domestic in , of they im all
that was pure and holy , the g ( - ) hearth . and Of fluctuating necessity the The progress status towards of women order was and not civilization clearly define "was d slow for
those many privilege centuries . . s legall Not y until accorde the d to close them of which the ninth mark cent the ury distinc , were
tion between sufferance and equality . At that period , -women were allowed the control of property , whether married or single ;
were they had publicl the y crowne right to d , keys and sat distinct at the from witena their -gemot husb _, ands and . subscribed Queens
their names to charters . we It may lance assist briefl us to at understan the political d the state social of aspect Eng of land the under subject the , if y
g Saxons . Saxon The Invasion period , embracing and Norman six Conquest centuries , which be divided elapsed into between three
may eras The , first the Earl extends y Saxon from , the the Saxon arrival -Danish of Heng , and ist the and Saxon Horsa -Norman in their . end of
the all " three ei arts ghth long of century the shi continent ps . , " It in was the migrated during harbour to this this of period Ebbesfleet country that . multitudes , It to was the marked from
p * Histoire de France , vol . I .
Women In England. 169
WOMEN IN _ENGLAND . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/25/
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