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406 THE LADIES 7 EVIDENCE.--—FOOK^ REEIE...
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able In authorit factas y a . sensible man remarkedon hearing . the evidence : very
so clearly , and forcibly given by these ladies , : —7- " This goes farther towards a free and just expression of public opinion regarding our
workhouse system than any examination we have listened to as have yet . " onl And y vaguely he was surmised right . ; They they have really amp know ly what tested workhouse the what fate others is has of
conflicting set pauper the -reare seal interests d of children degradation , personal , and women ; or they remote upon are . in whom Clearl no way the y they trammeled are entirel b y y free from the natural embarrassment of Commissionersresponsible
emulous in the eyes to of the that country all was for ri the ht administration when all was of wholl the , y law wrong , and ; prove g
free alike from the nervous solicitude of Guardians , suspectedtoo ofben of having stood in thing rather than in _locoparentistow & v & s
ibe orphan and abandoned any '; free , pre-eminently , from : _the shuddering apprehension of hired officersin whose case admissions too largely
, made Possibl would a inevitabl summons y entail wMch disgrace implied or the bar necessity promotion of crossing . the _.
y who ing lolbby methodicall underto of the ok House to y the conduct of interrogatories Commons the inquiry , confronting ' of and the withstanding the honorable chairman gentleman the , answer shock
of a cross-examination by members on , the _" other side / _' may have Been received with a feeling more or less akin to a natural feminine icuous
position have shrinking been . Such from speedil a the sense dissi obli of pated gation uneasiness b of the occupy , manner however ing , in if a which it too did - the consp exist inquiry , must
earnest was conducted -minded b man y y the or Committee woman y . desire And more after than all , what the privilege should any of
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newspaper to ive a satisfactory accounts and idea our of _otvtl the line memory taken could by each not be witness relied . 611 A
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as be Visiting the her main social Society stay influence , of , has which for ; to she many the was task years the of founder devoted directing , her and - attention pen continues as well to to and the
the lamentable condition of women : and children _^ - sick led generall to y , practical in our workhouses resultand _^ * Subsequentl the Workhouse y , opinion Visiting thus aroused Society ,
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406 The Ladies 7 Evidence.--—Fook^ Reeie...
406 THE LADIES EVIDENCE _.-- —FOOK _^ _REEIEE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/46/
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