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    . LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 27...

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    The " Saturday Review."

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

    worked in factorie at s home that — I and was it rejoiced is to those to hear that that I desire a very _sj > large ecially proportion to refer , of A them good which is

    workwoman can make as mnch as sixteen shillings a week , * ' a very nice verbiall thing y low for her wages famil of y a " Dorsetshire the foreman laborer assured , I me thoug , and ht considering it undoubtedl the y pro was

    factory Christchurch a very Some nice of Twelve thing the , thoug women or indeed sixteen h they live . is have as the far of as at course which twenty been they or _- thirty generall originall miles y y enter trained distant ( receiving in from the

    very and twent low . wages has occasionall at the commencement y succeeded age , ) in but learning a woman the as trade old ; as under two , ordinary or three circumstances y however she would not have much chance of becoming a proof touch and

    they ficient accuracy like in of the to eye feel work . they The , which are mistress hel requires ping said their great ' Our families delicacy girls get , so very when to fond they and of the marry a work practised l Please either and

    laborers , or very often sailors , they generally come me say , ma I ' am saw , may several I have women my who tools had and been work ten at home twenty . ' " thirty , and one who had

    been fifty years employed . Their eyesight , did not seem affected , as only the aged The wore special spectacles branch . of watch-making which they practiseis the

    manu-, facture and in all of what chronometers is called . the The chain latter —which fact appeared it appears to is afford used a in special most watches subject of land ended

    of pride her to the —the foreman liveof , who seamen assured on the me chronometer the prosperity and the Eng accuracy dep of the

    on chronometer navy upon its chain s —and added that chains were , made in no place in Great Britainsave Christchurch and its neighbourhood .

    rusty We iron saw thirty wire , beaten different and processes striped gone till it throug became h , beg a delicate inning with steel the ribbon thick ;

    figures which of ribbon eight— was , which p ierced we could with onl invisible y distinguish till holes beautiful ; b punched y means ointed out of steel a into magnif chain minute ying

    g produced lass Strange —; and ; to the then say finer neither rivetted ones the bein and foreman g polished no thicker nor the than a mistress a coarse of j silk the factory thread . had ever was raised the of females

    heard that any objections had been against employment they in watch expended -work—and great when amount I inquired of needless whether they in met assuring with , much me there opposition could ,

    a energy less be no training reason than why a women boy , as shoul she was d not naturall do it— y an more d in the dexterous fact conclusion that with a girl which her required fingers ,

    " and besides what a help to her husband ! " was they reached I hope breathlessl those benevolent y . who shrink from the idea of the violent

    trades opposition may which be encouraged is likely — persons to not be to excited injudicious by women partisanshi invading p or to some premature special

    successfull and _uirwise , y practised effort—but by women to patience and accepted and hope without , by seeing opposition what by is men already .

    I am , Madam , your obedient Servant ,

    At At ir o .

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    . LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 279

    The " Saturday Review."

    The " _Saturday Review . "

    I think _Mabatvi , readers will be leased to know the worst that can be said p

    if the against article have your your which not views appeared , for and it I let in trust the me , say therefore Saturday a few words , that Review upon you " of will the November subject reprint , premising at 12 length th , or , space

    that you I belong to the rougher , sex .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/63/