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    278 LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.

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    I am Madam most , desirous that the pres...

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    Madam,

    her v their oyage labor clo , thes and will , counselling advising be in vain " them them ; her about on co those - the operators stock higher would of concerns things of , necessary course without be for which the a clergy , _long all

    would and the return district to visitors recommence , and the after same seeing work her , not charge in the s same safel parish y on board , but in , the she next and , a or distinct at least in staff another of visitors school . , and B under this means the ausp the ices whole of another of Westminster clergyman y

    workers had Green might been , be or again canvassed Barbican once in reaped Westminster , , mi and ght , another when be exhausted this Should harvest was it accomp ; be would and objected b lished , y no the th , doubt at " time Whitechapel the , sum the be ri required whole pe , Bethnal for field the for

    . such a work would be greater than could ever he again raised in this would country Sydney be Herbert for gathered emigration for in the such , after same small the purpose magnificent sums , and we from rep sum ly so which that many the was quarters money collected collected that by Mr the .

    real amount would never be imagined , until the whole had been , accomp from lished their . The position greatest and drain the nature would of be the the work salaries ought of the each missionaries to be in recei , pt who of ,

    _£ 100 a year at the least . Were the salaries of , two such women guaranteed mence by some to- wealth morrow y person and would intere ~ sted be hailed in the by question thousands , the as work the greatest might com boon

    like ever There to offered address are for other their , points hut acceptance connected I _feax . I with have this alread subject overstepped , upon which the limits I should you

    you , y of will your care readers to allot whether to it they ; allow can tell me me to conclude if Mrs . Ch by . ish _asking . olm is you still , alive or any , if she is still workingandif workingin what country and townand with

    what success ? , , , , Believe me , yours faithfully ,

    R ,

    278 Letters On The Employment Of Women.

    278 LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN .

    I Am Madam Most , Desirous That The Pres...

    I Madam most , desirous that the present movement to promote the loyment

    am emp of womenshould be carried on ] without—if possible—provoking the oj ) - position of , working men , and for that reason that we should direct our first

    * efforts l combination It is to not educate therefore " is , least and with obtain to be any apprehended work wish for to women excite . , in antagonistic those occupation feelings s that where I but rather to show that

    approach that trade the which vexed is question supposed of to watch be guarded -making so jealousl , y from women , is kept even in Thus the hands we , heard of men the , other "by a merel day of y local a watch and -maker temporary in Clerkenwell prejudice . , who began him and

    warned to teach that his daughter if he did , simp not l desist y that she no work might would be useful be iven to him in yet future was . , , g _* Many of them similar are aware anecdote of the s will number no doubt of women recur to who your do readers alread — y work but perhap at watch s few

    _-^ making special branch in Eng of land the , quite trade unmoleste . d , and even having a monopoly of one I was lately staying near Christchurch is arried and was in asked that town to see one Not of the

    three than two factories or three where men watch are emp -making loyed in c the factory on I inspected , . and merel more y had according to do been tie roug to the loyed her state part at a of of time the the trade b work y thi . ; s but factory The I number found . Of that the of as women other many two varies as iive factories of hundre course one d

    was There larger are emp , and so the other well smaller grounded than obj the ections one to I saw the . employment of women many

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/62/