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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 349
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
quire are a I which eom d e what now they privilege to do another not s alread , what part of advant this much ages ? and can -vexed since educated ' woman admit . English question that women . cannot ' , We
redo without man ' s help , in what y form possess is that help to we be given ? we ; " I have , in _tite following Essays , endeavored to meet these questions in
a general way ; but to avoid mistakes I will place some of these requirements _^ practical tails in a . more I am men definite not for particularl I form know ,- — that briefl y anxious when y , however once abou a , t theory and those without h d eta b il s going which into h troub any d l d de ou d - r ; >
is hel and accepted the that us b . attle by is the the of , great op public inion point , mind not in the , . the which difficulties detail intellectual s are of wo practice rked and g , out enerous we sooner have appre me now or n later can to meet b ; it t , p
some c tions hild _"In , r part en chari the are of first table congrega the p , l government ace educa , t then ed tional , and , Eng should , have sani lish tary to women be be in , i managed n the require w hands hich that numb and of able in otherwise ers all and o public f women intelli cared institu an for d t - ,
available women ; , that on the the princi maternal ple which as well I as believe the paternal is now element generally should acknowledge be made gen d , into that all the social more you institutions can carry the out more the famil harmonious y law , the and * the commun more ion perfect of labor will , '
perl they y be trained . This for supposes their vocation , o , f course . The , that recognition women so of emp this loyed vocation should as be com pro ing - great within public the ' advantage Woman ' s Sp it here would ' of natu a field l an of d necessar loyment y duties for the , would , educated be a
classes , and it would incalculabl ; y open benefit the humbler emp classes of women ; but such employment must not be merely tolerated , it must be authorised . "
Some practical observations on prisons then follow , and four pages upon workhouses , which we shall extract in another placein
, connection with the journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society . Much discussion having taken place in our pages concerning
industrial training schools , we are glad to quote the following sentences :
have " The the woman means of wh preparing . 0 is to be entrusted herself for with them these ;—as higher yet such social mean duties s do should not knows exist . ! The They cry will is now be for extended industrial I hope schools and for wherever girls—much establi needed shed , will heaven do
infinite good . It is said that the _National , girls' schools are to be also , in few some lad measure -inspectors , industrial associated _schools with . May the I gentlemen suggest that -inspectors if there had for our been female some
National y schools some vears agosuch absurd mistakes would not have been would made in not regard have to been the g intellectual iven to those , culture studies in in which these schools proficiency . The is understood preference
. and of those encouraged which can by be men onl in y boy taught ' s school by women s , to the , and exclusion where women or , at least best , neg under lect - stand the proficiency and the deficiency . The young women trained in the
quirements grammar Normal scho , geograp _; ols but become suppose hy , and , under that history with excellent , these and bachelor astonish schoolmasters lawyers the inspectors , ex and cellent these by teachers colleg their ian ac of s -
clever ' with philological rational women tastes and ' there one or had two been sensible associated medical , some men years would ago not , a few the requirements _staff of school in -inspectors a _girl ' s have training been ?— more and efficient if this system in regard of j to , oint the _-insnection practical
for educate could young be d , extended ladie it would s , in to be which thpse a great the boarding daughters public school boon of * . our establishments There farmers might and ' be and tradesmen a seminaries prejudice are
against gentlemen-inspectors only , but lady-inspectors united with them ,
Notices Of Books. 349
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 349
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/61/
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