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IN BEGARD TO WOMAN'S WORK. 343
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» I Should Not This Year Have Brought Be...
this have world seen and is changed known . them I can in therefore different towns only speak of this of our women country as I :
in in Birming Hastings ham , in , in Glasgow Notting . ham I speak , in Edinburg of what h I , have in Dublin seen , in of Leicester the lower ,
classesand of what I have heard from innumerable ladies , wives M and daug inions , hters have of been squires forme , clergymen d from , these doctors source , lawyers s of informati , merchants on . ;
and y op though I have found such ladies always "willing and anxious always in any p heard lan for them getting lament emp when loym , ent from for any their circumstances destitute of sisters , the number , famil I have y
life of a district has suffered by the withdrawal any large of women from the home . sympathized It may be with asked such , however a business , on what as that ground conducted I have at the helped Victoria and
reason of Press _jDdpular ; wh a business sympath I was which so y for lad has two to commanded see years it . established I woul an extraordinary d and answer successful , that amount was the
not so much y that women g are employed in it , as that it is superinpresent tended by stage a woman of national . Since civilization non-domestic , it is labor exceeding is the irls ly rul difficult e allowed for our to
to earn spend an honest ten hours livelihood a day sp in inning any other in a way factory , and , they if g should remunerative are also be allowed to spend them in printing , if that be a more to the
occupation . But our moral sympathy is chiefly due Press on the score of Miss Faithfall ' s superintendence . Were I asked if I should wish to see a iment of women
working answer in common No or at printing least I " should Offices under t male the reg ide supervision a with regret , I should , and accep
only on the ; principle that women must earn bread and butter . But I asked whether I should be willing to see young women
were mechanical gathered together tradeunder in printin efficient g offices female or sirpervision in the _workshoj , then ) 1 s of should any
that for the , unmarried womenit was . in the present state o £ the say Before country concludin , the one thin this g to be there desired , is . one , oint on which I wish p
to touchbecause it g is at paper the very root of the matter , and there is little good ' s , work in our unless repeating we are all year content after ye to ar face the the old serious arguments questions on
woman which touch it on all sides . I allude to the difficulties imposed by the the leading questi article on of which marriage appeared . You in hav the e Times probabl of Monday y all seen the and 9 th read ; an should like
article in which I entirely coincided , and upon which I siderable to say a few sympath "words . with The woman writer ' s of work that and article made expressed several observa a con - -
tions which appeared y to me marked by , good taste and good feeling .
t partial But heir happ one stated iest , since that sphere the , after , majori and tha , t the y t i n question t women he upp er looked thoug and m to important iddle married ranks , life was the ir
In Begard To Woman's Work. 343
IN BEGARD TO WOMAN _' S WORK . 343
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/55/
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