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70 OPEN COUNCIL,
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*Th the Editors of the English WomarCs J...
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70 Open Council,
70 OPEN COUNCIL ,
*Th The Editors Of The English Womarcs J...
* Th the Editors of the English _WomarCs Journal . Ladies , Will you allow me a place in your Public Open Council inion in for a few to remarks on .,
Miss Work Parkes " ? I ' desire Paper to on eliminate the " Balance a meaning of which Op I conceive regard to be Women latent in ' s . concluding that article , remarks rather than on famil to differ life from it yet it seems . Full to y coinciding me unwise in to Miss regard Parkes it as *
the is undoubtedl sole and inevitable y to the majority destiny y cannot of of , any men shut individual and our women or class a to happ . the ier Thoug fac condition t h that marriage there than _, permanent celibacy , yet we eyes marital It
seems exists ar to ound me that us , in the all firs classes t element , an appalling necessary amount to a happy of union misery is , that . it . should be free—free and delib be erate the sole on both motive sides for ; that mutual into appreciation itthis _.,
point of personal , I conceive qualities vou should will not differ from me ; but entering how , I would . ask On , can , ; this entire and mutual freedom exist when a woman mus thousands t either m of arry irls or .
tion broug starve ht to ? whom up With , who no what receive remunera ideas a , more with tive o what or ccu less pa intentions tion elegant is ever are but tau those very ght superficial but whose educa tenure g - _, , ,
it of not indolent ; at _I _^ east opulence tacitly is unders only t co ood - extensive , even from with their the lives childhood of , their , that fathers they ? must Is
" get Throug married h all " the ? discussion that has taken place during the last ten years , is of on the marriage the very condition root and its of and the motives affairs well- has of being women lain or at , wretchedness it the has core seemed of the of to wh men me ole that , women matter this , ; question and that the it- ,
to always children the di be gnity that free are of to one live born sex unmarried of , and them the . as If happ long you iness believe as she of both , chooses as I , that do , to that a do woman it so , is you essential should must ! in her celibate
wishwith meto render every woman perfectly independent the companion condition ordinary , : for if affairs , you life , she wish of life must her as be they to habituated use arise jud and gment to to exercise this in accepting end that there jud is or no gment rejecting disci on pline all a - ,
being so The salutary liable term as to bread work be - . winning understood , seems in too to , me restricted also to a need sense some . The explication primary , at of omisther function
occupation of a woman in a household is than econ ; is earned to app her ly advantageousl living before y the marriage money discontinues earned by men her . external If a woman occupations who has .
after the less that simp self event l -supp because , she orting does her . She not , ceases unless ies can neg working be lectful more for of profitabl those her duties who , will become lied pay to any her the :
wages internal , economy y of the joint energ affairs of herself and her husband y app . and The just function as pay w of orth the y economist as that of is the just producer ri as idl necessary . confined It is , just undul to as it y praiseworth their depreciated house y *
now , only because women have been too gy ; * society at hold home labor mi are g is ht undervalued in as reasonabl a position y because make analogous a it regulation is to to that be had that of too men a man cheap in in the . the Many colonies bush women should , and _, his that in
Eng not land cook should his own not support steak , and herself bake by other own than damper domestic , as employments a woman . The \ M y y are wishes , that as every regards woman the pecuniary should be condition free to support of women herself are easil by the y defined use of * "
whatever because she faculties is a woman _G-od has I ask given onl her that . In she this should career not I , ask be no obstructed favor for and her , y that would , be
the paid that next she for the should will same easil be work paid y follow for equ her all : y that labor well economical done the same . When wages emp this loyments positi a man on should is attained be
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/70/
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