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    THE

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    Vol. II. Becember 1, 1858. No. 10.

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    XXXI.—CHARITIES EOH WOMEN.

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    such This been very referred interesting...

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    The

    THE

    ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. Ii. Becember 1, 1858. No. 10.

    Vol . II . Becember 1 , 1858 . No . 10 .

    Xxxi.—Charities Eoh Women.

    XXXI . —CHARITIES EOH WOMEN . _«¦»»

    Such This Been Very Referred Interesting...

    such This been very referred interesting to in subject any literary has never publication , -we believe . Its , materials distinctly are as

    buried , in parliamentary reports , rare books , and rarer manuscripts , but it is one full of hic beauty as well as detail of the most

    interesting kind . Of the grap public charities and endowments , aggregately speaking , the last three or four and forty years have produced excellent

    discussion as well as description in abundance , this with much result : but of women's charities , per se , either as they stand as little

    is individual popularl institutions known , Yet or as scattered mixed with over those the country for men are , very some

    admirable institutions y . endowed , solely for women ' s relief , as well as others of a mixed classOf both of these it may be interesting , to

    . g donors ive some of these detail , not ifts with but to a view shew of women sending what fresh has claimants been done to the in g

    them former an days analogous for their sp , relief irit of , often help b -rendering y their own in sex accordance , and to t arouse with the in

    hi will enabled gher necessaril and to more ive y form of enli the part ghtened sums of such invested views statistical of in our the summary time charitable . Excep as we relief may as they be of g

    women in this country , we shall not refer to the lesser charities , of the onl which y _relief to the some of great few women maj of those who ority have larger are under moved endowments thir in a ty superior pounds , addressed situation per distinctl annum in , y life but to .

    Previous to the Reformation , there is reason to think that the of the population stood differently to what it does at

    present average , and that females were in excess of males . The desolating civil and foreiwars which for centuries absorbed so many men of

    all degrees , must gn have led to this effect ; but the religious foundations , and in some measure the prevalence of villeinage counteracted

    the evils arising from this inequality in the sex of the population . The suppression of the reliious houses was followed by a great

    g of amount the reli of public ious foundations indigence . A portion have returned of the hig to her the class shelter women of may

    their others ori retreated ginal g homes to forei , where nunneries such , were ; left and by a time consider and able circumstance majority ; *

    gn "we may be sure , entered into the marriage state . The great increase

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/1/