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A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE. 115
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W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...
out raiiiing * the enterprise ; while some time must be allowed to elapse before the idea involved in these model experiments could be
expected to be seized by the commercial public , arid an entrance be effected by women into either trade at large .
Since , therefore , we possessed _fo _^ t small power to aid numbers seen throug wliether h , the medium we could of form our a own link organization between our , Reg it remained ister and to lstl be y ,
, the semi-mechanical occupations to which , women have acquired , or mi country ght acquir ; so e as , a to title supp ; and ly workers 2 ndly , the to b the enevolent one , and institutions matrons of and the
female officials to the other . To this end we adopted an idea struck out by a friend , and
printed long slips for distribution , containing ., besides the addresses of the Victoria Press and Law-Copying Class ( in case any vacancy
chief might offices occur , of or the more Electric hands Telegrap be wanted h in ) , London the addresses ,, in both of , of the -which two _,
women are largely employed ; and also the addresses of the two chief institutions for training and employing nurses ; also of Mrs .
_Lushington's cooking school , & c , intending to add to the list whenever we heard of any new institutions which would be regarded as
centres of women ' s work . At the bottom of this list we notified that we ourselves kept a limited register for really competent
matrons , clerks , and secretaries . tions Now I , will in regard dismiss to them what with I have a few termed remarks semi to -mechanical - "which I earnestl occupay
request , your consideration . I am in this paper , considering the needs of educated women;—of ¦ women who have been born and
the bred most ladies earnest ;—it is democrats a real distinction cannot escape from , whi and demarcation ch which , even in in Eng America between land , ,
ing however class at and it much class from may the one strict be point rubbing edges of view of off the , , still we line exists are s of sometimes in full force temp . ted Look to
regret the false notions of gentility which prevent women working whole bravely class at whatever at large comes an honest nearest observer to hand must ; but , feel in considering that there is a
, in something the strugg * noble le — to _something the beyond habits a mere the dress effort and after the " gentilit countless y , ''
preserve , , born moral and A good material and a r associations efined education of the is a rank very to valu which able thing they ; wer and e
. if educated women are to work at all for money , and I see no escape for a certain , number being obliged in _otir country to do so ,
that education ought to secure them something more than a mere pittance Now . the semi-mechanical occupation of the telegraphand I
be-, lieve it will be found to be the same with all semi-mechanical occuthe
having needs pations of , neither does an educated not parent ( except woman nor chil in , the d unless to department support she be ; and quit of overseers e even alone then in ) supp the the world wages ly , ,
A Year's Experience. 115
A YEAR ' S EXPERIENCE . 115
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/43/
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