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LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN. 281
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The " Saturday Review."
tliat can . be said of her is , slie has failed in business ; and no social reform can He prevent knows also such ( what failures does . " not a " Saturday ; Reviewer " knowand who is
, like more , and competent would to not speak seek in to mate the name with of an all independent mankind ?) factor that , " who men at do any not time could quit , " [ his paraphrase for a woman brought up to maintain
hertedious self by some duties useful of training art ] and and ' ' who bring at ing all times up children would , be and tempted keeping to neg the lect trades , the - men desk ' s and bills the , and counter mending " the linen , for the more lucrative returns of the
. ciall Let y let women them therefore have no be taste kep of t as other dependent than domestic as possible emp upon loyments marriage , otherwise ; espewill nothing be * able —neither to restrain children them , nor from home rushing , nor back love , to nor such protection congenial , nor occupations
leisureas The those of Saturday " clerks , Reviewer telegraph " - would workers be , watchmakers sorry to express , and himself book- roug keeper hly s , " but ! being are his theory entirel . It is is dependent this true : — social Women on policy man sho onl ul as d y well be to encourag tr for ained subsistence to e the marriage existence as for as the protection of women end of their who and
y , love all that . M can arried be said life is of woman her is , ' s that prof she ession has , and failed if she in business does not . get She a husband is to fall , a in vision love , in the order whole to sex get at married their . In work his mind scheming ' s eye the flirting reviewer ling sees ang , as ling in
for husbands , , —no maiden too young proper or too , pure to beg , in , no woman , og too , old to leave Men on off their , —and part he is when satisfied hooked , his as soul they is will content beeven , —business with their is being open done .
will sighingly console , themselves , with the dutiful , reflection eyes that ' * the , greatest But the of women social and who political cannot duties is the to encourage distressed marriage . " and needlemarry ; governesses
women , the widows left unprovided ; how are their cases to be met ? For them the reviewer is sorry ; they are " social anomalies , " they Reviewer must go to
the and wall others . Wh of at his is taste important should to society be tempted is this to , — marry that the . They "Saturday know what they , " would down to wish their in standard a wife , , and to it ive is our them duty ick to and keep choice all women h as . far as possible penoug
True , this is only to , be done g at the expense of an amount of misery , and — perhaps the " vice Saturday , terrible Review to think " will of ; subscribe but for thi to s there the Governesses is no remedy Benevolent , —yes , one
Institution ! One word more . Is it not too bad to drag Mr . Tennyson two or three times mind into , this there arti is cle in , this as if something his views almost were sacrileg identical ious with . The the " Saturday writer ' s ? Review To my "
cannot produce one line of the poet ' s to show that he shares its low views of to woman that that be she she more ' s has life of ht as and man to good duties ; be that a as ri . free g she ht Tennyson shall to as free man gain and says to in various mental choose distinctl her development breadth y own that . path woman Surel as whether y men shall this means liave grow that ;
instruction lead to the oug . beautiful Tennyson in art could , or never simply commit the useful the , mistake or to science of supposing , , or trade that , or women hiher than would " be the less business good wives of getting and husb mothers ands , . because " Indeed trained to contrast to something in the
strongest g possible manner Tennyson ' s ideal of marriage , , with that of the reviewer " Saturday lias Review had the , " temerity one has to but conclude to continue . It the is refreshing quotation to with turn whi to ch the the
well-known lines : — " Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; she of
Nor The He gain lo man se the be sweetness wrestling more of woman and thews in , moral that throw hei man ght the ; , world ;
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Letters On The Employment Op Women. 281
_LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN . 281
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/65/
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