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FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION. 23
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
is a woman capable of passing scathless _through the moral perils of greater a sea Indeed -voyage part , the , undergone and women defy we ing such have the a deb bap hitherto aucheries tism of sent sorrow of abroad a colony here , have , . that for unless the
we are greatly mistaken , the remainder of their lives , however " light may beam towards eventide , " will ever retain strong traces of In their confirmation early sorrows of this . statementI may remarkthat of
twentyseven women who left my office last , week for the colonies , , three only Iiad both parents alive , sixteen out of the twenty-seven were orphans ,
and eleven had only mothers . Eng I land presume by my women first who point , are viz . compelled " that great to work distress for is their suffered dail full in y
nor bread and agreed does sorrows , " on is the the a at disproportion prove home subject d point and , that abroad of ; no indeed sexes further requir , with I b notice elieve e its more corresponding need we than are be a passing taken all disgraces so of allu it y - - ;
sion . So far we are unanimous . , If we are divided at all on this emi subject grants , it will is upon meet the with " ways after and their means arrival , " upon , and the the recep probabilities tion our
of The their first obtaining difficult work the when money once question landed , . is the most minor consiy
deration of all ; for thoug , h at present colonial funds are voted excluwe would sivel could y for be once little the benefit convince difficulty of the agricultural in obtaining colonists that lab an orers we extension wer and e capable their of these wives of votes sending , there , if
out suitable women , women who knew how to work ; and until we can obtain such grantsI am sure you will assist us with funds to
, themselves carry on the awakening scheme , for to I the feel truth pretty , that cert they ain that have the work colonists in abun are
dance for a class of persons very superior to laborers and farmservants .
It is unfortunate that the great distance between ourselves and the antipodes renders communication tedious and our knowled little ge of
its social condition uncertain ; indeed , as a rule we hear or ; nothing events arise of our of sufficient colonial possessions magnitude , to unless attract some general great attention or unusual such .
for instance , as a Maori Waror the discovery of new gold-fields , , •—events which disturb the natural , action of society and distort the
events ordinary convey phases ing of , on life the ; and one in hand these , too cases depressing we have , ep and itomes on the of other too elevatingan idea of the condition of the country ;
con-: _> sequentl an every y -day affording and general , no safe aver and age reliable estimate data of upon its social which capabilities to ground
and Of requirem the necessity ents . which exists for using great discrimination in
sifting the evidence of both friends and opponents to this movement ,
I shall adduce two instances . About twelve months ago , I was
Female Middle Class Emigration. 23
FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION . 23
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/23/
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