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THE WORKHOUSE VISITING SOCIETY. 887
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told tliat * ' it is a fearful and significant fact that many of the most hopeless and hardened inmates of workhouses are girls who have
Mrs these been Among broug Jameson topics the ht , up none various and in the are a books paper pauper so noteworth and b schools pamp Miss . " y hlets Louisa as which the Twining little have volumes treated originall by on y
forming . an article , in the Church y of England Monthly Review , , and now published in a separate form , under the name of " Workhouses
and Women's Work . " _^* " Sisters of Charity , " and " The Communion of Labor , " have been borne the
so widely circulated and so largely quoted , that they have weiht of Mrs . Jameson ' s opinions on the various forms of charity
g over the length and breadth of the land . Miss Twining ' s paper should be as generally read by those who care to pursue the especial
topic of the Parish Workhouse : it is a detailed sequel to the wise and kind remarks and suggestions which form a part of Mrs .
Jameson ' s plan . We extract a few passages from this pamphlet previous to laying before our readers the outline of that new organisation
which stands at the head of this article . They are selected from different pages , so as to give a skeleton of Miss Twining ' s argument .
for " the Twenty Amendment -three years and ago better the Administration Old Poor Law of was the superseded Laws relating by ' An to Act the
Poor great in advantages England and that Wales have , been ' and gained people b in y the general exchange are satisfied . The abuses with the of that alteration d to be
urgentl the former An y amendment called system for , had if was the become according poor of so this g l laring made country , and were some has not been to the become law seeme pauperized in England .
" y , sent sufficientl day . y long When for flagrant its results abuses violent to be examined are reaction found and to exist fairly , judged it takes is hardl at lace the y in to pre be
dre wondere ssing d them at that ; and a somewhat if over harshness -indulgence has was been the frequentl the fault characteristic of y the old p poor of the law re , it
one can . hardl We y have be denied no doubt that that it was oriinallframed -with all due caution new and deliberationand that in the main g its rules y have worked beneficially
for and along the remed with country great evils . , benefits But perhaps of there late not exist years inherent also a susp many in icion the evils has system which begun , demand itself to arise but attention which , that
unforeseen have developed y at ; the themselve , beginning s and , and grown hardl up around then admitting it in the of course a remed , of years ybut ;
becoming " Other apparent countries in have the continued progress , of to events y and their of experience without . the aid , of manage poor
a lawand we believe there are some persons who think these plans are believe preferable , that to such our own a state , and is hold not a out necessary less encouragement and and unavoidable that to with pauperism one , but . to the They these
inundesirable variable work rope . favorabl This consequence qualities fact on is the taken our of national improvidence country as a proof character is pre that and -eminent the vice but existence tends , amongst to lower of a the poor its nations regard independence law does of Eu not
without and The energy poor it law . y How is should at far all find this events ourselves is in an reality acknowledged in the , a state case we of necessity great are not in prepared _England lexity to at , say and the .
present day we . We will assume it to have been originally establi perp shed for the
* Workhouses and Women ' s Work . Longman & Co . Price Sixpence *
The Workhouse Visiting Society. 887
THE WORKHOUSE VISITING SOCIETY . 887
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/27/
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