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XXXI.—OUB AMERICAN SISTERS.
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? We have lately received froin America ...
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Xxxi.—Oub American Sisters.
XXXI . —OUB AMERICAN SISTERS .
? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
? We have lately received froin America one of _tliose solid , practical books to whichtliose who are interested in women's "work and
, happiness turn again and again for detailed information , and matter wherewith to supplargument . Miss Virginia Penny , a
lady with whom we have , y for some time , had occasional correspondencehas published a _Cyclopsedia of Women's Work , _* containing ,
as mig , ht be expected , all sorts of curious information about our sisters in the United Statesof whom we in England know little
- or nothing , and whose noble , efforts in the cause of the slave and the poor—whose untiring exertions for education and liberty have
been comparatively unrecognized among us , because we have allowed our sympathies to be chilledand our hearty appreciation
damped by some of those national , differences of style and manner which have crept between England and America since colonial
times . The State of Massachusetts alone furnishes a band of women who , for energy and devotion , must be ranked with , the
highest ; and as , year by year , some token is sent across the Atlantic—some book bound in morocco , as an offering to " Anna
Jameson , " or " Florence Nightingale "—some photographic portrait of a good and earnest friend in the city of Longfellow , and
Everett , and Palfrey , and Harriet Beecher Stowe ; or from New Yorkwhere our dear fellow-workerElizabeth Blackwell , toils .
ye strive ar , after in the year cause ; or of from Abolition Philadelp or hia , from _^ where the the cities Quaker of the ladies Ear
; West , whence letters and papers often reach us—it seems to us that we should cultivate a warmer sympathy and more kindly interest
in those who are striving purely and honestly in a common cause . Many of these ladies have in past years been amongst us , and
are well known to the readers of the English "Woman's Journal . They are held in -warm remembrance in English homes , and we
know that they themselves look back with affection to the old country . Now that so much deadly suffering has fallen upon the
great republic , and additional soreness threatens to arise between the Governments and the press of our two countries , in spheres of
thought and action with which we have little or nothing to do , it seems due to old sympathiesand to the " Communion of Labour "
, of years , not to omit a special greeting to American women , whom we know , and love , and respect .
At such a moment , too , we turn with peculiar interest to the book before us . _"At no time , " says its authoress , " have so many
women been thrown upon their own exertions . A million of men are on the battle-fieldand thousands of womenformerly dependent
on them , have lost , , or may lose their only support , . ... It
By * Virg " The inia Emp Penny loy . Walker t of W , Wis omen e , and : a C Co _yclopedia ., Boston ; of Women's Work . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/60/
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