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OPEN COUNCIL 429
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To The Editor Of The Jenglish Woman's Jo...
offering change of some opinion views lias and taken observations place , the on condition the subj of ect g , irls when is to I be am dep suddenl lored , y '
encountered by " a Londoner , " who tells me that my remarks are " utterly inapp They opposite lic were able never to classes the intended hi : gher when and as I app speak more licable of thoroug the to sun the hl hi y of ghl cultivated course y cultivated I do classes not , but mean , to etc the the . ' *
moon very and when I talk of feeble morbid women , I surely cannot be supposed all to allude their , faculties to women . I with have cultivated not the sli intelle ghtest cts doubt , , and that in the your full correspondent possession of
is but a very she cannot fortunate surel person y imag , enjoy ine that ing all all possible people are advantages equally happy and opportunities : and I trust , she a class will somewhere not call my between veracity the in question elegant rich , when and I inform the starving her that there who exists are
not so interesting certainly as I could wish them , but whose poor petty , miseries " ( the Eng women lish Woman having ' s Journal so large . " a Tor share this of is not them , thank ) cannot Heaven be ignore ! the j d ournal by the of
certain a coterie statements , in whose pages and adopting one may a get certain into print tone . onl In y on the con class dition I of speak making of , young where there gentlemen is too are often to receive a very a limited liberal education supply of with money a view , and to yet the learned all tlie
professions and when a , ri what ht is is to due be to withheld the _g-irls it is will in great first be danger denied of and being then withheld all ; g , , goes tell well of in m the any world families ' s eye where , and every the daughters one ' s conscience are not is onl in y perfect defrauded rest of . all I could
eduminds cational that advantages they had , anything but where to the do with idea educational was never suffered advantages to enter , and their that preserve is on the the reall subj some y ect killing vitality because part in of the the woman poor system starve of . d A creatures little wholesome intelli . But I discontent need can jud not ge would dwell for
herself how it , must be under any such circumstances average . Mothers gence of families are , with few exceptions , perfectly satisfied with this iniquitous arrangement : if they do not cry " nigger" they act up to the notion in a quiet but very
effectual way . , article The " on Dail Elizabeth y Telegrap Blackwell h" for the foresaw 1 st of that April she of would this year meet , in with a leading a - very
determined opposition mostly from , her own sex . Certainly this was a very unfair and unhandsome assertion , denying the culpability of the men , or
¦ Mdin were the g it avowe behind d state that of of feeling the women among . But women if , mutual such an esteem assertion and would confidence have "been a mere audacious absurdity , and no respectable newspaper would have
ventured on it ; whereas it passed current and did very well , no one , so far as which I know appeared , attempting last winter to contradict , in reviewing it . The a work " Athenseuni called " The , " in Afternoon a number of
Unmarried Life , " alludes with good-humored gentlemanly ridicule ( I do not remember the very expressions ) to the teach y-preachy tone in which women ch address alk out their a career own for sex , one and another to the . limiting If your , correspondent desponding way thinks in which it riht they to
combat such representations , she should have begun long ago ; or can g it be I that have she said allows by them her own from practice men and ? not Average from women men dwell ? Is she with justif comp ying lacency what
on the low opinion women hold of one another ; indeed I have often observed that this is the only matter in which a woman ' s suffrage is considered of any value , an anomaly which surely deserves to be attentively thought on .
pondent Let those , and to amend whom their my _ivays remark ; those s appl to y , whom follow they the advice do not app of your ly , cert corres ainly - need not take offence at them .
I am , Madam Your obedient Servant ,
A . S .
Open Council 429
OPEN COUNCIL 429
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/69/
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