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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 847
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
when boards tolerated , literary as and an scientific occasional societies and merel so tenaciousl ornamental y exclude element women ? Men , except y may
say—they do say— ' What prevents you women from having charitable , literary cisely the , scientific state of societies things which and academies every wise of man your , own every ? ' feeling Eut woman this it is , pre will
studiousl _deprecate y . separate If , where themselve no law s from of expediency us and then or _rej necessity ) roach us require that we , form men , moral in mere deterioration self-defe ? 5 ce of , some both resources ? Let not for women ourselves be , driven what to can this ensue : we but do not the
seek " I it have , nor endeavored does it rest in with these us to Essays avoid to it . point out some of those influences in g which lad training to are find tending and that education the to too that earl is ' separation y beg and inning comp ' to a lete gainst excite division which attention between we are in warned boys England and . , I g as irls am a heard able and
possible distinguished cause men of much lament moral the e want vil ; and of refine how d often accessible I have female society in regard which our Universities prevailed to , lawyers at and their stigmatise foundation it artists as ! a But remnant and , then of , is those medical not monastic the men same when ordinances true with they
_first enter young on their professional , young life ? and , who young can doubt that this is a state of relations things fraug ? Who ht with can mischief wonder and that misunderstanding when men and women in the are subsequent united in famil mar y - want of
riage sion of and each in other the government ' s motivesa of want the of home respect , there for each is a other ' s independence comprehen- , fatal ' Young to domestic men grow peace up ? from , their school and college days in total ignorance
of the true condition of womanand the education which has been given to with her . an With affectionate a" love tender yet somewhat , reverent , exacting , and protective and patronising towards feeling a good towards mother , either the other
inability regards a good sister _wornem to understand , ( . if generall they are , y or , so they rather happy enter an as on inclination to manhood have to and misunderstand one its duties or with and a , )— total de as - become the established creed
with spise , men the motive that women s which have actuate only one us . object It has —to obtain their love ; and only one aim in life—to be married ; and if we show of a contempt akminded for these the vulgar
notionsit is attributed either to the hypocrisv we-, or preof sumption irit , and of strong a bad - heart minded I women attribute . the To this sneering ignorance tone , which and not has to prevailed poorness sp
knowing aware of late of in , , one what the or inj certainl two urious of y our effect , fhe popular clever , the deep men reviews - who lying . write , I incalcul have these seen able reviews it with evil deep they cannot pain may be , to look to to desire
his produce approbation . It is , the to earn natural his esteem instinct , to of be woman worthy of his up friendshi man , p , though did she not may usuall not obtai - read n his the love satires , nor written need his by protection men against . In our former sex days they women were
y ; recommended too gross—in some by their instances classical too Latinity atrocious to even the stud for y men of our to school endure -boys , unless , or those who instruct our school-boys : but reviews and journals are now a
room part of table the . retading A . woman of all takes well-educated one of these people able ; they periodicals lie on every , expecting drawing to - up ious Possiblshe lihts
find in some struction article , moral written sustenance not in , Latin relig but guidance in choice . and vigorous y English g , b upon one of those many , clever , young writers , whoit is said , have come to a
y , , ridiciiled to _determination raise her . She position _< to _perceive put in down life s that , women or these to reclaim . ' gentlemanl Here her she fallen y finds adversaries sisters her for honest , do traduced not endeavors argue She and
willing the sees question the ly wit look and of for ri ability g hel ht x or _^ , she here wrong admires turned , they , sim against the p superior ly use her a j x power the _^ ower privilege to which a _purpose of she working . would
Notices Of Books. 847
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 847
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/59/
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