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A. Letter to Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
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defend , and may perhaps in some degree account for the dreadful acts- of savageness said to be perpetrated at every fresh revolution
in the streets of Paris . As we descended the Grande Rue , and looked in at the shop
windows and up at the names over the doors , we were struck by the number of women who botli serve in the shops and keep them ;
this is occasioned -by a more judicious piece of legislation than the last mentioned . Many _marriag-es in France are contracted under an
agreement that the goods of both parties shall remain separate , and this arrangement being recognised by the law , it is no uncommon
thing * for the woman to invest her fortune in a little shop of her own , serving in it herself , and when increase of custom makes an
assistant necessary , she naturally chooses one of her own sex to aid her . If she become a bankrupt it does not affect her husband , who
may be an artizan , or even perchance keep another shop next door , neither would his ruin prevent the wife _fronx flourishing if _thi ©
fates so decreed . The French are always boasting that they are the most generous
race in the world , and certainly in this instance their assertion seems borne out by factsfor we have no recollection of a similar
, piece of magnanimity being exercised towards women in any other -country . It is a grand contrast to the conduct of the so-called free
-town of Frankfort , where no woman is allowed to keep a shop at all except as agent for her husband . Thus single women may not
open even a milliner ' s establishment , and if a married Marchande de Modes has the misfortune to become a widow , she must retire
from trade altogether . We onee heard of an ancient milliner , who , In despair at having to give up her business on this account ,
actually married the errand boy who was wont to cany out the bonnet boxes , and continued to keep the establishment under his .
name . "We Britons behave better than these Burghers , but though we are not _g-uilty of the gross selfishness of the Frankforters , neither
are we capable of the disinterested conduct of our French neighbours .. Our behaviour constitutes the medium between the two ;
scarcely , however , the "Juste milieu , " but what our dearly beloved
allies designate as " tant soit pen egoiste . "
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
A . Letter to Lord John Jtussell . By Mrs . Jameson . We have hesitated in what way Ibest to bring forward our feelings
and opinions regarding this letter , which we consider by many degrees the most important contribution to the literature of our
particular social question which has appeared since this Journal
_£ rsfc took its stand among the endeavors of the day .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/55/
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