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woinoisra wgmdb fbance. 3
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_• _ofc Lancashire the work ¦' _: peop those le miles ¦ Women _? ttpon _aivl mile g s ixLs of . dusk You y red know dwellings _wliat it those is in
, machines a ( 3 oces ( _ofjhuge _^ jeach factories with _^ its those patient endless industrious rows of femal _spinnmg e hand and . weaving " If a
catastrophe falls on Yorkshire , and the chimneys of Bradford or _^ Halifax r hunger cease at honae to smoke ? -Women , who are and they girls that . I come was upon told in the Manchester poor-rates ,
jby oneof the most eminent and thoughtful women in England , that the outpouring of a mill in full work at the hour of dinner was such
_aytbrrent of living _hunianity that a lady could not walk against tfche stream : ; I was told the same thing at Bradfordby a female
, friend of my own * Jn Both instances the quitting of the mill seemed to have struck their imaginations as a typical moment , and
_"fcltey spoke of it as something which once seen could not be for-¦ _gotten _A _^ ; _[ r , ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ / ¦/ ¦¦ : ¦ : ¦ ¦ .. ; :-, r _. v :. : . ¦ _ ¦; . . ;¦ :. - ¦ ¦ _- .. ¦ ¦" I . . . have ' _.- • _,- : ¦ visited ¦¦ •• ¦ " : .: ¦ this " _' . spring - : : : ¦ ¦ :.-:
, the isknown women eii of _^^ female are _a so absorbed destitution into . In _tM Birming _niiU ham warehouses _^ where vast that numbers little
_,., _itney _^ fe _^ pi _^ _^ nay be seen _\ e _^ p working _loyeiin ' _- _' in . ffie the i ' ' lighter button branche manufacture s of the , in metal japanning trade , ,
in pmi and needle niakm make nails , and unless you have seen them I cannot represent to your imagination
the je : d _£ aor _^ idng brawny _^ Sallbw - _—rundeli _^ ed : to ghtful wx > rk rfco _f but the' remember last degree > fchat . In they mines did they work are there _^ no _^
_inbt so > long ago , taMng with , men-an equal chance of fire-damp and . _dfeowning > even being sometimes harnessed to the carts if poor ,
patient horses Were too dear . I read the other day of a whip makers * strike , which took place
because women wore being introduced into a branch of work for / _iwhiich . impressive m , _^ _hing which small ever country came employed " to paper my ; but immediate perhaps factory knowle the most dge
_v wMch _^' _ds ;; . i _^ e a _^ desc prolonge _^^ _tidn _^^ in a of the a hands strike and , the in ve _^ _-exeeUen _^ There were letters and
_, speeches to aand _£ ro ; _placards -on the walls , and a liberal expenditure of forcible : Saxon _language . Now who were these hands
_** , out on strike '' : ? these people who made speeches > gathered together ¦ ; _J _^ : in _/ oia angry iknbts at the corners societies that on of no t _^ _smallr body of ladies in
- . _v _^ wants I _^ dvising 0 _^ dpi iyy of them ' the - _;>] ¦ time ao to / rcomi follow , can ] aii - _^ crest ¦! es new - _^ r vfche paths icharg try 6 _> ing of from ' ' > _linsexing to _; household struggle -women WitH shelter the By
_^ and . \ natural du _^^ > and away all-pervading power , the { power _of-trader renders the workman ' s home empty of the
housemother ' s presence fbr ten hours a day _> _cahd teaches English women _^• tMl / advaatageV of . being " out onBtrike ; _" .
:: ( y < _- ' _- < _$ QV . _iit . i $ } clear ' '' , that '"' , since modern society will ' have it so , women ' ' " ' " ¦ ' : ¦¦ : ¦ •; : . . . . ¦ ¦ b 2 ; _"
Woinoisra Wgmdb Fbance. 3
_woinoisra wgmdb fbance . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/3/
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