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a year's experience. 113
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W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...
difficulties and other are papers also in felt less althoug important h under periodicals somewh , at testified modified that condi our
tionson the other side , of the Channel . M , title to again introduce this topic to the notice of the
Associay in tion is simp d to le remedial and direct measures —that of undertaken having experience against to the communicate evils which
wer regar e deplored last year—experiments limited , it is true , to one circle of leand in the mainto one centre of action ; yet none
the less peop valuable , because they , afford us certain definite lessons which a less concentrated , here might less clearly bestow .
In November 1859 the sp English Woman ' s _Joiienal had already been dealing with , the , various questions of woman ' s industry for
for of not Women affiliation quite two was to years this as yet . Association inchoate The Societ , . but y A for m Reading aturing Promoting -room its p the lans for Enrp ladies , and loyment , asking and a
sible Register departments for noting of app female lications labor for the , had more just intellectual been broug and ht respon into
existence . Such was the beginning of our present organization , a ye of ar funds ago . and Last of activity winter every The department Journal greatl received y increased a great in accession
circula-. on tion this ; the Associ Society ation was with absorbed a committee into one of created twelve b ladies y and and dependent twelve
gentlemen model industri , which al classes immediatel , ; the y Reading began - to room consider was removed the formation to large of natural
and excellent premises in a central situation ; and , as a separate g cants consequence iven . by It departments the is of not press these my , the of improvements province exertion Register here towards was , to . to literall which g bettering ive y a an deluged wide account the publicit condition with of y app these was li of
women laceand . The details report regarding of the the Societ successful y will be establishment read in due of time a law and
its p copy own ing , story business of the will introduction be given therein of women ; the into Victori the a printing Press will trade tell . of the
That of which I desire to speak to you here is the action Register , to which I alluded above , not it has so much ht of the little it has the
been able to effectas of the much taugus regarding real When supp first ly of this educated Reg , ister labor was in opened England , it . was merely intended to act to the
Engli in a limited sh Woman way among ' s Jotjunai the ladies _,, who at , of in that these those time ladies days subscribing of were its infancy activel , numbered few hundredsM y
industrial concerned schools in a charit , and y ; small and . hosp had itals any founded , homes , or for supported invalids , , and or officers refuges visited . , of different kinds—institutionsin factrequiring female
among We thoug our the h subscribers t th at woman by , opening we into mig the ht a , reg occasionall ri ister ht lace which y find that should opportunities Mrs act . A . merel might of y putting gp ;
recommend an g excellent matron or school teacher , and Mrs . B .
A Year's Experience. 113
a year ' s experience . 113
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/41/
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