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212 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...
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. ^ To The Editor Of The English Woman''...
laces There for is a the great children want of of good -workh servants ouses . , Wh and there then is should a great not want these of _good two y
p wants be made to meet and satisfy each other r "Will any one in your next , answer my _query ?
I am , Madam , Yours truly ,
A Practical Mistress op a _Hottsebcoxd . October 4 th , 1859 .
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212 Open Council.
212 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal ,
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. some upon speaking Journal subject of I of see music the a letter need as it , of is gned stud taug y A _'ht . for E _generall . the , in sake -whi y ch to of young it female disci is mentioned pline ladies mind of ; the for that understand in educated Dr your . Hook last it - ,
because Lad was ing , y subjected stated Jane the Grrey that femal to , the " were Formerl mind same distingui disci is y not when pline shed subjected first as schol the the ars mind to . that But of narrowing man it was . Q soon was , ueen found Elizabeth which that ,
is amount attendant of disci upon pline e as professional is requisite pursuits in the other , it did sex . not And require thus process , by the deg same rees ,
menta whilst l disci philology line , music logic , was and ret mathematics ained as the were form under omitted which in their a liberal course edu of - p
cation is conducted , of which the first aim is to form habits of fixed atten-, ct be studied in its and ful
tionand which is met if even one subjedepths - ness cation , . which * * the * It mind is throug as the h music mind that require the female s , distinct mind from receives any that intrinsic
eduvalue in the means employed , , in order , that it may be trained to exactness and Now vigor to . " it _tliat as music is taught to irls generallthere
practical stud is very of littie performance harmony me mental appears counterpart ; disci the p ment line al composition beyond effort afforded industry ht is and but not g small app to be lication . Surel lected y , in y the the in
to the score know way y : hardl wh it is y . thi one How s lad difference , y many in a very hundred is made , fair can performers wh play irls , from oug are are a not unable figured taught bass to neg music read ! I from in wish its a ; y g
the of depth the beauties and master fullness y of they the , compositions as it stud is to boys ing they ? ? wh In are fact should play , wh ing y they , should and not comprehend they clearl not understand learn the to ideas see
the entirel intentions lect of in the this are composer as in y other whose things y work the s they mental admire exertion ? Wh y required y do we so in y neg
the proper study of music , , and devote so , much time to the cultivation of digital activity ?
I am , Madam ,
October , 1859 . ¦ Yours . ' truly , C . M . W .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/68/
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