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344 NOTICES OF BOOKS*
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
It does not claim attentioii as a new and separate work ,. being * _iti fact Charity prefatory , " and to " a The new Communion edition of afterwards the of Labor two , widel lectures " delivered circulated on " to Sisters a large in of ?
circle of private friends , and y a printed Under form this . form it haswe fear , less chance of _beinsg bought and
read by those who already , possess the first editions of the lectures * it and were we , cannot the gathering of but the hope best up to into and see one most it strenuous reprinted enlihtened appeal separatel Kng , the lish y , desires for women it is ancl , as im _Teqriiiremenis g
, regard Feeling to > society that in at this large letter and their is contained own position the in pith it . of the whol ©> sketches out the
ereed question according to which to we which devote the © far truest own pages thinkers , that hope it to shape . the all the _©
prefer various at home simp efforts and ly abroad to now give being to such a comprehension mad large _©^ by extracts women of as the may over spirit help of our country the readers appeal , w , _* ,
and send them to the , book itself ! of The the keynote opening to address Mrs . Jameson delivered ' s _words by Lord _^ is to _Jolm be found Hussell im . a portion at the
Social Second . Science Annual 1858 Meeting . We of quote the Association them again for for the the Promotion sake of their of
present connection , with the letter to which they stand as a short preface .
of serted " the Every or world soug _oae . ht must It , "but is hav not is falling e a observed share to in the the directing lot new of women times influ the ence patronage but , in _^ which swaying is of not the ministers in "being destinies _Hhe for as or - ;
mation literature guiding and the — the councils for moulding much of of kings that of public world , as in op of inion former fiction . For in which a , great many a part portion of live our and periodical nearly
tion all I ana take , and eonfirmed deli , the ght grace , in — this we of are expression opinion indebted by the possessed to bright the ethereal by examp women fancy les of . , heroic It the seems delicate benevolence to me percep _—and — -
that sin is if to the have young less dominion generation and are relig to be ion an more improvement power , if vice on is their to be fathers _ahashed , if and virtue to _^ e honored , it is to "Woman we must look for such a generation .
After commencing with a few remarks on the necessity of real , vital , heart-felt , home-felt communion of labor between men and women ,
Mrs . Jameson proceeds . " This argument of the distinct elaims in all of social the two work sexes without without disturbance mutual
of discord the natural , of their domestic necessary relations communion I have endeavored to illustrate in the two Lectures ( or Essays ) which follow , . excited They were at the first time published owing in 1855 I
to believe and the 1856 coincidence , partl . The y to degree the of novelty of attention public of some events they of the which views suggested to these ! _, _,, was and views yet a more m _© , r @
direct exhausted application I did - not —a think more some immediate of republishing interest , them . " , When gave because two , editions as it appeared were sooia td >
me do , so they . Latel had , accomp however lished many their object oi the as subjects far as anything touched upon so imperfect - —happil c y ould no
longer new— y have , assumed , a new degree of importance . The progress of
344 Notices Of Books*
344 NOTICES OF BOOKS _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/56/
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