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    FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION. 29

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    In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...

    hardships of a settler ' s life . The mail closes to-morrow ; so I have only tiine to write this hurried letterto encourage you and others

    , in your kind efforts . I may address you again on that subject , and shall be found one amongst many who will aid your undertaking

    when sufficiently developed . " The present rate of wages may and will vary from time to time ,

    but at all times and under any circumstances , distress amongst the Industrious and virtuous , who can and will labor , is a chimera .

    In conclusion , you will permit me to say that in conjunction with my most valued and clear-headed fellow-worker , Miss Jane

    Lewin of Bayswater , to whom the success of this movement is in a large measure duewe have during the past fourteen months sent

    , out or induced eighty _£ > ersons to colonize . They have gone to the following colonies : —24 to British Columbia ,

    7 to Sydney , 15 to Melbourne , 1 to Canada , 1 to Otago , 19 to Queensland , 2 to the Cape of Good Hope , 1 to Sweden , 1 to

    Damascus , 6 to Natal , 1 to Calcutta , and 2 to Canterbury . As far as we have had time to hearthey have all done remarkably well .

    , There is one very important point still to be noticed—I allude to the reception committees on the other side of the water who are to

    take our girls by the hand on their arrival . I wish it to be distinctly Tinderstood thatwithout having committees at the different ports

    we have had from , the commencement of our work ladies of position , and intelligence in every town to which we send . These ladies are

    still working with us , and our young people are consigned to their immediate care .

    In every case not only are letters sent to our correspondents by the Overland mailapprising them of the departure of the girlsbut

    we give introductions , to every emigrant , together with the name , and address of the Governesses' Plomethe Government depot , or

    , some respectable lodging to which , with her companions , she may go immediately after landing .

    We are fully alive to the great importance of having good coworkers on the other side of the world , and we should be most

    thankful if any colonist now in England would volunteer assistance .

    I intended making some remarks about the capabilities of British Columbia as a peculiarly suitable field for Female Emigration , but

    justice could not be done to so vast a subject , in so short a space ; and I must therefore reluctantly leave it for some future paper ,

    premising only , that the work done some years ago by Mrs . Chisholnx for Australiawill very speedily have to be commenced for the

    , magnificent new colony of British Columbia . Let me warn all intending colonists , wherever their lot may be

    cast , that unless they work well and walk uprightly they will inevitably fail to reap the advantages to which we have been just

    and alluding comfort . Let can Ibe obtained delude in Australi into a believing without that - _^ ork . ompetence Be con-

    Female Middle Class Emigration. 29

    FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION . 29

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/29/