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24 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION.
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
Introduced colonies . Being to a a lad person y of of rank position who , she had was just well returned acquainted from with the active
Government House and the elite of the town ; being also an schools and benevolent and the outcast woman population , she was practicall —she could y acquainted tell of the with purp ragged le and
fine tattered linen garments of the aristocracy of dissipation on the , on the one other hand ; , but and about of the the torn broad that and
cloth and the fustian of the squatters , of the social prospects of wide stream of middle class men which lay between the narrow strips word
of extreme wealth and extreme want , her ladyship had not one to say upon which we could rely , as the few hints advanced were
sketch dared contrary to broadl to differ well , and remembering -known detail and accuratel how establi very the shed few social facts men . condition In I Eng consequentl land of their can y y
must fancy own country ing therefore , that ; y because and necessaril let me a man y advise be has a competent you lived to so avoid jud many ge the of years fatal the abroad mistak wants , e and he of
condition The second of the point country to which in which I referred he has was resided in conn . exion with the
town of Adelaide : from two unquestionable sources we had learned that there was no dearth of women in Adelaide , and we had
conse-The coup quentl led other y determined with day the we important not received to send confirmatory addition any of , that our evidence peop at Gaulertown le of to that this port fact and , .
from Capunita Adelaide , two , town there s , one was onl a y great thirty want and of the women other , onl and y sixt that y miles there they This would brings be sure me to to succeed another . matter which I am also anxious to
press the same upon result your in attention the colonies , viz th ., at that it does over in -centralization England , and produces must that be in
order to ensure the complete success of this movement , it that very if strong they ly obstinatel impressed cling upon the to the minds towns of all and intending decline bush emigrants situa- ,
tionswe will not be y answerable for their obtaining lucrative or Immedi , ate employment ; for it is in the bush that the greater
number of vacancies are to be found , and the highest salaries offered , for the obvious reason that " country" no masters can be
very up _engaged There to are teach evidentl accomp two lishments classes . of women who safel : may very y
_te sent abroad . Firstl y y , a few really accomplished governesses who can and who do command from £ 40 to £ 100 a year in England .
Such ladies would be sure to obtain in the _Tbush employment far superior in a monetary point of view to that in which they are at
present engaged ; while , instead of the isolation to which too are doomed in this countryinstead of weary
liours many after lesson wasted governesses time over would sentimental find them and scampering sickly novels across , , half- the holidays plains and on
horseback with their young charges and companions , or busily
24 Female Middle Class Emigration.
24 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/24/
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