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158 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL.
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adventurous enough to seek an asylum , in Australia , while three had courage enough to trust their fortunes in America . "
We almost think that " truly glad " here must be a misprint for " truly sorry" since we see no reason for regretting that so few
women of education , have been actually drafted off to supply the immense deficiency of their sex in Australia , or test the ample
promise of the western world . While writing about the position of women , we must not omit
a suggestion thrown out by Mr . Kinnaird , that _" young working women , in factories , shops , etc ., needed after work hours some
relaxation ; and why should not provision be made for them similar to those made for young menas reading roomsetc . ? " To which the
, , gentlemen present said . " hear , hear . " * Mr . Ruskin sent a paper upon Education in Art , in the course of
which he urged " the importance of teaching young ladies the sound principles of art , and not contemptously leaving the drawing master
to do the best he can in his twelve lessons , and with courteous unkindness permitting the young women of England to remain under the
impression that they can learn to draw with less pains than they can learn to dance . I have had practical experience enough , however ,
to convince me that this treatment of the amateur student is unjust . Young irls will work with steadiest perseverance when once they
understand g the need of labor , and are convinced that drawing is a kind of language which may for ordinary purposes be learned as
easily as French or German , but not more easily , nor on any other terms ; this languagealso having its grammar and its pronunciation ,
, to be conquered or acquired only by persistence in irksome exercise —• an error in a form being as entirely and simply an error as" a mistake
in a tense , and an ill-drawn line as reprehensible as a vulgar accent . And I attach great importance to the sound education of our younger
females in art , thinking that in England the nursery and the drawingroom are perhaps the most influential of academies . We address
ourselves in vain to the education of the artist while the demand for his work is uncertain or unintelligent ; nor can art be considered
as having any serious influence on a nation while gilded papers form the principal splendour of the reception-room , and ill-wrought though
costly trinkets the principal entertainment of the boudoir . " carried * Since out writing in the the Young above Women , we Lave ' s Christi learnt an that Association this suggestion Young is actually
engaged in houses of business , or otherwise occupied during . the day persons , are the " affectionatel above Association y invited b at y the the Hon _North . Mrs London . A . Kinnaird Home to become U members Charlotte of pper
Street Saturday , Fitzroy from S seven quare , . till The ten rooms In addition will be to open access every , to , evening a good , library _excej ) t
classes and arithmeti will , be c formed lectures for will French also . , be German delivered , sacred from music time , drawin to time g , writing on Mis- , , ; lication
mus one sionary t a . m be ., and m or from d other e at seven 51 subjects , ti till pper ten . " Charlotte x For > . m , the Street rules , of Fitzroy the Association Square , from app ten till
158 The Meetings At Liverpool.
158 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/14/
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