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350 NOTICES OF BOOKS
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
the and country duly authorised . I do not in , mig the understand ht raise and the wh hi standard y the her same college of kind female for of irls education _authorised which all interest we over find
miht not be taken _larger gs g , extended The g schoolmasters by the Universitie do not deem s to it the an large interference academies but and an honor college and s for a boon boys * , the It is obvious that where
large been and the entirel educational schoolmistress y in the and hands their charitable would of have men institutions , as is is same for generall the feeling , comprising boys y . the whose case the wants , their two difficulties sexes pity , have may j
be and for motive the girls s of , but action they sympath understand y ; the girls * are therefore , , unintentionally perhaps , but comparatively neglected . "
The ladies wlio sent in a , letter to tlie Royal Academicians , praying for admission to tne schools of art , will be g lad to see they are
not forgotten . We " But wish in to regar have d to some education freel higher accessible , we kin Eng ds to lish of women industrial women . require We , and wish professional something to have more , sonie and . artistic training more y
sharehowever smallin the advantages which most of our large well-endowed public Design , institutions was opened to extend , the female to students pal men objection onl , it y . met was When with on the the the score strongest National of morality opposition School ;— of , -
one and certain , would strange number have to say of thoug ladies , ht princi and that a . certain all London number was of to be gentlemen demoralised had , met because under a the two schools in distinct
perhaps in the far same -separated meet roof for on the the apartments stairs study , of and , art but then . it True , when was , argued going home that , who the were was pupils to protect might ,
forgotten the young not ashamed some ladies of the to from utter disgraceful the publicl young absurdities and gentlemen privatel which ? y on You that gentlemen , my occasion Lord and , ;— may _^ 1 artists blush have
have were to recall no reason them;— to I fear trust women we hencefo liave as y th their done to be rivals with th , ir , them so associate I ; hop and e women and as I am will sure anions , in men all
noble " In studie relation s edifice , be to allowed this to s be ubject erected , the r que b stion the Royal now e before Academy the s public of comp Art is whether on land . , in the new y
granted school of b art y the ? _Government A doubt exists , it may whether not be the found original advisable charter to include of the Academy a female
g did ive or them did the not benefit include of lad the y doubt -students Where , and , but naturall gentlemen y take not , speciall we the presume chivalrous included , would and in
generous any category side ' where , of it the leads men question onl to a are most . named undesirable women women ambi are are , guity included ; for , in y either the general we are . told that y , told that ' where
termso that it comes to the same thing ; ' or , we are the micians women speaker , are But not may it especiall is happen not y lea named to b led elong , I they believe to a are board supposed even of excise by to those be or excluded a most council against : of ' just acade us as - ,
that women . were intentionall p y , or absolutel , y excluded ; the more especially that The among lished the ori and ginal courteous academicians President , in of 1769 the , there Academy were , in three his Letter ladies . to * accomp inadmissible to the
Lord Lyndlmrst , does instruction not plead that extended women to students are of the other sex pri but - that vilege schools the of is institution gratuitous much as is the too funds poor of to the afford Academy it , and can that meet the . pre A sent small outlay share , for of
as the remembered * thirty ** I say -six no . thing painters Of the of , ' t three who heir were meri ladies ts the , , for one ori that was ginal has Angelica academicians nothing Kaufinann to do , with abou , the also t twelve question still remem . st Of ill - feebleness of desibut far more poetical
in bered fanc , y a and sort concep of female tion , West and a in mos general t charming portrait painter gn , . "
350 Notices Of Books
350 NOTICES OF BOOKS
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/62/
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