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THE DISTAFF. 31 i
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The Traveller Mounting Some Steep Ascent...
_e if ndorsing acknowled the almos loo t un king iversal op this inion subject of at as least a most the important other sex ,
one by an r undul alt y houg heav ge y here linen and upon drapery there a bill husband , may some or f t imes ther angril goaded y
mut asser t t th , at " — 'Tis -considering all a woman the thinks vast in of fluence , " which will even dress ven and ture the to
preparation and the vast effe f dress ct which has exercised it undoubtedl upon the will condi t t have ion of u , woman on her , yep
y des then tiny ta — ke it has glance hardl y t ye the t been mode > sufficientl in which y w thoug ardrobes ht of were . Let once us
b fitted some y which , t j in ud t gmen imes they eleva t p , as tin no t , t and h er , y t condi hen of plied in how tion con , we t such t ras it t in g chan it possibl with g t y the mus arrive method t ha ti v at presencompara
opera height , but also how g further changes in the same direction are calculated to raise her yet higher , and enable her to become
even In tuall speaking y all that thus her of " loftiest dress" wishes we do can not . desire f course . refer mere exclu ly
labour sivel to ex y t , ernal em but loyed to adornmen clothing in its ts production , nor genera even l to Among our to own the our garments share ancestors of female this
work seems p from the earliest days . to have been chiefly in the hands of womenand it is well known that in Saxon times females
wh of il the e the hig name hest ran , deares k di t to not disdain woman the ' s labours heart is derived f the dis f t aff ,
what was then considered every the equally feminine occupation of weavinfor wife and woof' are of one oriin . These
accomplishments g , are not thought to have been g general among _oon was Char tinen l famed ema tal gne l for ad w i e its s , thoug equal fair l y workwomen we skilled are assured in them : the , th b u four t t t he daug dau own g hters coun ters try o of f
sp Edward inning the and Elder weaving were as especial well as ly in celebrated the more for recondit their e skill arts in of
needlework and embroidery ; and the great Alfred in his will side emphatical Indeed ly terms thoug the h the female term part inster of his has famil now y— become the spindle the
general . characteristic of only the sp unmarried , few then were the feminine hands of or condition that were exempt from
this labourwhich for any centuries age continued to occupy not only the leisure , of the ladbut to fill interval of other
duties in the long work y -day of the busy up every housewife . It appears however that at the period of the Conquest a number of male
weavers a time formed came over into with guilds William or corporations from Flanders endowed , who with were certain after privileges , for wlfich they were duly taxed , it being on record
paid that in a mark the fifth of gold year into of Step the hen Exchequer ' s reign for the their weavers guild of . Never Oxford -
The Distaff. 31 I
THE DISTAFF . 31 i
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/31/
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