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150 THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED FEMXLE XABOB...
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her of gainin as a first g one -rate . He balances _Tbiit in Ms the mind the -would expense be of very training great , ' governess ; expense
and he has not courage or energy to look for any exceptional work for So his he young silences daug all hter anxiety ; he would for the not future make , b her y say a clerk ing or " She a nurse will .
, , foolish marry , : outlay indeed of money it "would , to g be ive a her very a trade bad or speculation profession , ; she a very may
never want itand her brothers are sure to want all the money I can spare / ' the Plausible side , of her but fearful in " log so ic . it It is not is true astonishin that the g that chances an
are on marryg , penniless as ordinary one in - a father woman hundred trustsi are , the so to great parent them , that should ; yet if the the provide opposing miseri against es chance which it . were befal but l a made i
It is of this material that our forlorn single women _& re painful insufficientl thousands onceded economy by utterl y all provided political y . destitute We for may economists , eke save lay out for it a charity that miserable down a father ; as thousands a income primary ought by more to social rig provide id who law and , ,
for selves c all . his For children their , sons or give they them perform the , means this duty of providing with anxious for themr care ; _- and
but state expect for of that their the some case daug one ; hters this else expectation they will neg do lect it is for in it , innumerable them because . This they is instances hop the e plain a
daug But hter there 's provision is another . reason whthe father confides his daughter's y
future to have so or wholl to hold y to propert her y possible , and the husband law throws : women the her are gifts husband so unused or the
to power another earnings another , that man of man the a has married ; father legal nor to is woman little train over tempted up so his the comp to daug fruits letel save hter y of up into her expensivel his education money y to , when , g and ive ' s
can take away any money power she earns . Women have _£ o little individualitin the of most menthat when a parent has
y eyes , married sibilitabout his girl her he feels and of to course have washed in her youth his hands he looks of all forward respon to
the chances y of being , able so to cast his burden on another . But surel state y of in the the law present in regard state to of the Eng property land , and and even earnings under the of married present
womenthere is a sort of madness in trusting to such a . slender reedThe , daughter but her husband may die , or fail ,
or be . too poor to support may her marry and , her children ; let her at least be trained beforehand to some possible way of getting her bread .
and And is left suppose penniless this g and irl , sing whom le by we took death as a of type her , does father not . marry What _^
she can cannot she ; do ? undertake She is . untrained a national , ; school she cannot and be her a father good governess taught her ; ;
no And business here , we and come gave . to her our no money second to _proposition set : up in ,: one that . ajl ideas . of
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150 The Market For Educated Femxle Xabob...
150 THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED _FEMXLE XABOB .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/6/
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