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TVEST-END HOUSEKEEPERS. 249
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XLVII.—WEST-END HOUSEKEEPERS.
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• The lively discussion excited by a cer...
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We Have Received, From Mrs. Salis Swabe,...
tions bring often "better results than public institutions : and I therefore b successful elieve that than privat any e exerti public on appeal s here in throug Englan h the d will newspap be , in ers the . meantime My firm , b more elief
is heart , that , will more privatel money y will unite be and raised collect if ladie funds s who for have school the s , & good c , in cause Italy reall . Liad y at y Shaftesbury , Madame B . de Bunsen , and Mrs . Samuel Guraey , in London ,
Mrs promised . Edmund to interest _Grundy themselves , in Manchester in the , M good iss Fox cause , at ; Falmouth and I hope , have I shall alread thus y their bring letter a better at once response before to the the publi request cbut of the bwaiting Italian ladies till it , can by be not published bringing
with the support of many good names , , which y I have no doubt I shall secure by privatel collected y circulating would thus it . The be _transmitted additional to advantage the Central of this Committee plan is , in that Ital the money
by the bankers , without any restrictions but those which the Marchesa y , progress Pallavicino of , Italian President regeneration of the It . alian Committee " Believe , me mig , ht & c hint . as useful to the
" Julie Salis Schwabe . "
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_TVEST-END HOUSEKEEPERS . 249
Xlvii.—West-End Housekeepers.
XLVII . —WEST-END HOUSEKEEPERS .
• The Lively Discussion Excited By A Cer...
• The lively discussion excited by a certain letter which apx _3 eared in the October number of this _Joiirnal , bearing the above signature
, has revealed so much unsettled thought upon the question of social rank , that we are tempted to try and sum up the different arguments
and see to what result they come . The original letter stated broadlyand somewhat coarselythat
, , the writer could not get good domestic servants , ( _sjoecifying a nurse to whom she would offer £ 25 per annum , ) and that in consequence
she was not disposed to pay much heed to the prevalent cry about want of work for women . The letter , written in evident haste ,
displays a slight amount of irritation , or such a sweeping assertion as that " servicedomestic service , is evidently the proper sphere for
, woman " would hardly have been made , exposing the writer , in one quarterfrom an eminent literary member of the other sexinto the
, , charge of being _" a megatherium , " and in others to less tender epithets than we ever heard expended on a page of this publication . The
" West-end Housekeeper , " with a certain rough logic , appeals to the . old conventional meaning of the word lady" and insists that workers
, for money , however honorable their position , ( the honor of which she fully admits , ) do not fairly come under that designation ,- and
points with considerable shrewdness to the phrase in use among the lower classesof " a real lady . "
Now it very , much imports the writer of these pages , and the great majority of the people who will read them , to know what
amount of truth lies at the bottom of this unqualified expression of opinion . Our Journal tries to represent the ivorking women of
England—some who work for charity , others who work for subsistence _^ others again who work from love of intellectual activity and the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/33/
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