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    EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 389

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    The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...

    evening of Friday , the 29 th of June , to rej _> ort the progress of the socie Lord ty . * Shaftesbury took the chair at nine o ' clockby which time the

    , visitors had _iDartaken of tea and coffee , and the Ladies' Reading-Room ( which had been kindllaced at the disposal of the

    committee we were ) was compelled crowded . to The be staircase content y p even with was standing graduall room y filling , so , and far

    remote from the speakers that any inaccuracies in our report must be pardoned from that fact . We will not attempt to make

    any record who of testified the names _h of their -the many influential and attention and benevolent their inpresence

    terest persons in the important , y work undertaken by the societ , y . It is all sufficient its promoters to say to that see it how was surel a m y atter , and of in and deep this case congr we atulation b need tliose not to

    add slowly , the idea had been received accepted y ¦ b am ation ong our are countrym the best en security and women for the whose truth countenance and stabilit and y of appro any

    plulantnrop Lord Shaftesbury ic enterprise , President . of the Society , opened , the

    proceedings by a short , but forcible exposition of the principles on which the in its societ views y had and been estab atulated lished ; the he expressed members on comp the let success e concurrenc which e congr

    _^ had Z Lord attended Sh aftesbury , their efforts , we . may mention , has shown the throug committees hout an

    and earnest entered desire into to support the practical the work details , has with attended a punctuality and zeal , which is not always expected in a country where the office of

    president is too often a mere name . Mr . Cookson moved the first resolution , ' ' That law engrossing is in short

    speech an emp , loyment gave it well as his suited opinion to women and experience . " b Mr men . Cookson that that law , in copy a ite ing of could be executed well by women as sp

    - apprehended opposition as , the office established y by ; the society had earned its claim to the support of solicitorsand that he looked

    for-, ward with confidence to this pursuit becoming a recognised emloyment for womenas it required neither physical nor mental

    p , Mr qualifications . Cookson winch then proceeded they clid not to read , in an the eminent following degree paper , b possess y Miss .

    Rye , manager of the Law-Engrossing Office : — by ticulars " the I have law of - the been copy position is requested ts . Perhaps and , as the , Manager progress or rather of made undoub the , Law during tedl Office y stat , the the , last to at best state few answer the the months fact par to - ,

    mi that any tt k , inquiries al tha t t houg t prep has h th reques passed at may shor ted throug t be rather paper made h more our on to- hands t ni his than ght subjec a , during " week will t , be yet ago the to b the last y the e amount week manag once has of ing been actual com so - ,

    grea wor t , it has been entirely out of my power to comply with that request , as * For the " list of the committee , etc ., we refer to our advertisement

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    Employment Of Women. 389

    EMPLOYMENT OF _WOMEN . 389

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/29/