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26 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION. 4
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
any more of that class . During the past two months I have had considerable erience on the subjectand I am now inclined to
give much greater exp encouragement to , the emigration of really lished women . I am now tolerably well known as taking
accomp great interest in the condition of governesses , and am receiving constant lications to make engagements for families in the
country a thoroug : the app h knowled supply is not of equ French al to the music demand and , for the ladies usual possessing routine of
an English education ge . I am therefore , , disposed to encourage parties of about six at a time coming to Sydney . At this present
time I am in a position to make engagements for six ladies , and much doubt finding that number competent to teach all
that very will be required my . I have great difficulty in finding ladies willing to make engagements as teachers in schools . I have recently tried
In vain to secure ladies for first-class schools , as well as for the Clergy " As Daug of course hters I ' cannot School requote . letters that appeared in the Times
a short time ago , I can only offer you now a few scraps from _, letters not quoted then . The first was written at Newcastle ,
simply saying , ' Wherever I have been I have met with the greatest kindness . I am now in a very nice familyhave only one little
, year _girl . of I ei think ght years first-class old to governesses teach , and would am receiving get on very forty well guineas in this a
part " . The ' next extract is dated from Fordwick , near the Murray River . before into
The writer says , ' I spent one week in Sydney coming the bush . I was continually hearing of the want of women of every
capacity . I read several advertisements inquiring for governesses and nursery governesses ; so , if you can manage it , I think there is
an excellent chance of their getting a livelihood here in this colony . I am living in the bush , about 200 miles from Sydney and _£ fteen
miles from the nearest town , and am receiving £ 60 a year . ' From . Natal the last mail brought this intelligence , ' We are well and
happy ; governesses are wanted ; we do not get high salaries , but the money deficiency is more than made up by the great kindness
of the people amongst whom we live . ' " So much for ernesses and realleducated women .
govy Secondly , I must speak of a heterogeneous body of women , commencing with the half-educated daughters of poor professional men ,
and including the children of subordinate Government officers , petty shopkeeperspostmenpolicemenand artisans generallyall of
whom under , certain conditions , may , also safely emigrate . , These are the women who are most especially to be pitied , and
whose cases require your greatest assistance . _. , _„ Formerly we drew our best and most trustworthy servants . from these classes the seductions , i . e . as far of
as these classes then existed ; now we offer them ' local position and fame through our National schools , we present
them with prizes at our art schools , we press them into the factories
26 Female Middle Class Emigration. 4
26 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION . 4
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/26/
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