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LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, 271
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63, Rutland November Grate, 8 London Th,...
I notice also that the statement of the Society for the Employment of "Women speaks of servants , needleworkers , and governesses reciients . of
Ifas is the casefemale servants are too often pparochial providence relief , in old age dishonesty , this , result than arises from more frequentl essential y condition from their of own service im- .
Worth Those that "while receive or a faithful very and small , good wages servant , do has not any generall often receive y no difficulty less than in retaining they are
who her p has lace , constantl and in lay y ing to change up money her in place it . who , and It is who the bad goes faithful or downwards unfaithful and servant instead
of upwards in their in the laces world are : and tempted many , to give , being them up for marriage good , , or save to money p , and of
enter businessand thenfrom their ignorance inexperience there their upon new as domestic life , they servants ; become thoug insolvent , h their and failure die has in the in fact workhouse come to , classed them ,
It not should as servants be added , but that as greengrocers servants , are , commonl publicans y , very or lod charitable ging-house , and keepers spend .
mi on g their ht provide destitute for themselve relations s considerable for life . I know sums , of which only , one laid mode out at b interest y which , the condition of domestic servants education can be of effectuall b y improve which d , and that
mode is the improvement of the women , y women may be As made for more needlewomen useful , trustworth their market y , and being provident perfectl than y op they en , are we now may . be sure
that their work is remunerated , at its real value in the market . Their emp the workers loyers diminution price cannot in of general needlework of pay the more are number , willing or for of of needlework any workers to other receive in article , than . proportion There , the can is minimum be to but raised the one demands , way which and that by needle for which is the by
work a . Much of it is as rude and as bad as possible . You may teach some of the crowd to do a better and more remunerative work , and you may
enable others to emigrate . and Under remuneration the head of i from i governesses the " low are to included the very persons high . whose A reall capacity y _valu-r vary very
from able governess eighty pounds is generall to one y hundred well remunerated pounds a and year well , or treated more and , . a good A considerate salary sitting of
often room and affectionate bed-room treatment , excellent are food commonl , sufficient accorded attendance to , a governess of the , first classand it is easier for , her to find such y an _appointment , than for an
ports to emp be loyer of governesses of them mean , to find and such , for we unworth that a may governess important do y remuneration well . , and "When perhaps sacred we offered , to burn office consider to . with young indi how ladies gnation ill who qualified at wish re- ?
some are sequence From these to your observations society opposed , that you to invincible it will should infer take economical that up I think no views laws it of ; which and the that gravest are I parti regard con al
the or exaggerated question which , or you desire to solve as simply and remarkably a question of As the shall improved be the education education of of women women . so shall be the remuneration of those
women who labor to live . , You may think lightly of the objection of taken by her the " Saturday livelihood Review "
that dimini , if sh you the increase number of woman marriages _' s power and so gaining injure society own , for you may , rep you ly that sucli a power , making her more of valuable and , in that a pecuniary it is neither sense for , as her a
wife own , good increases nor her for the opportunities good of society marriage , that , she should marry for hunger instead of for love and esteem . with the abun
On the other handwhen you look regretful longings on more - dant facilities which , France affords that for the labor lig in ht and remunerative and emp heavy loyment ill
of womenit is well to remember general , very , - paid labor , devolves upon them there much more than here ; . and tliat is to ,
Letters On The Employment Of Women, 271
_LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN , 271
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/55/
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