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226 FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASS...
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instilled in his turn into , him looks with attention down _^ _-very from first brea of th lordl all he y h iven a hei s dra g to hts wn of since self he -conceit qui t tt er ed " ,
the cradlebthe g" young mas in the nursery , y , and then t by the ex of pensive hisisters process and of by his the subsequen marked t
educationoften at he expense s , preference Creation . , awarded Thusin to childhood him as one d of throug the h so- called lescence Lords , barriers of the
f orth erec int t ed the betw wor een , ld , b en oy ter s and s upon girls a . career School wher -days e all over that , the he boy has goes of into where lf
knowled talent , ener ge gy and , and self to - perseverance reliance trial and are temptation dail is called encoura speed ged play and correc ; deve tion lop se and ed ; -
ex where erience , if exposed followwhere the character forms , and y strengthens , and , it p must be confessed , too often hardens from the very absence of
home legitimate killing female time sympath and , her y own and best influence self in , w the hile perusal the girl of dwells novels at ; tin dra
ing in she the -room would frivolous flirtations shrink dissi from p and ations in excitements horror of such did socie , the she ty as know d ly mischief can or reflect ge , of , and which w in - tachieve th
res again object tless from permitted hope the , or wise to stil her l and more dw humane arfed restless and author endea stunted v of " existence , Industrial o . and We Social e quote one
Position "It is of to be Women hoped : " that — the pictures popularly drawn of the extent lifhed
to but which it is marriage utterly - impossible hunting is carried that this in common tendency can , are be overc altogether arg ; of
resisted . The education and conduct a young woman come fals unconsc standard iously to by be which guided to with jud a view herself to : it she : she is is led led to to overlook rear a
is faults p e laced in others in a fal which untruthfulness se light oug . Her ht to sing consummates repel ge le-mindedness her . Every her is ruin thing put in when around jeop she ard her y is and the bait to ,
which on broug this ht , revolting painful to barter par as t soul of it our is and , is subject common body . for The enoug money taint h . and d We iffused rank must throug ,- — not an h dwell event the
female character hy the consciousness of _dependence on marriage for the means of subsistence ; the ht tendency toward to the direct attainment every of accom that
p prime lishment end , ; effort the , and unnatural thoug alliances , forced on many women , and the wretchedness brought in their * train ; the is still more union numerous
instances where , though no positive misery produced , can with be " expected the affections to afford , it may no happ be , irrecoverabl iness—loveless y fixed , cheerless elsewhere the marriages evil ; intrigues , — all ,
bickerings already sufficientl , it separations be other y known between , divorces to require human ;—these beings no fresh fruits thus delineation differentl of y here educated are . "
and How trained can ? Howwhen we have done our best to open a gulph , and maidens reasonabllook
between boys and girls , youths , can we y
226 Female Education In The Middle Class...
226 FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/10/
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