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244 woman's work in the wound's clothing...
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It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...
making available in this way the labour of girls of the lower order thors , jarid for sundr introducing y plans such were manufac devised t by known intll and ork un h known
au , ures o awouses , by oor wh ich work it would " had appear been tha as t Elizabe t h th ' s decree means , to u ivers set the
p , yey y _experience obeyed . One tha of t t these hree writers uarters asserting of a pound that " f it thread is known wor b th y
twelvepence , per pound , q when spun will make one ell o , f cloth worth two shillings per ell , and this three quarters of a pound
pa two tion spinners of spinning may sp were in in one troduced day , " calcul to workhouse ates that s if , t the he whole
occut he tion ver mi fines ght t b supp means lied wi of th all the work yarn alone it re . quired Mr . , Firmin except a wealth y merc , han y tof London pauper as noted in that day for his ,
Unitarian y tenets and , his zeal in , trying to spread them , as for his active hilanthropyopposed these tems on the ground
that women p generally , would object to sys thus working in poorhouseswhile too their domestic affairs would be lected
were they , obliged to work away from their homes ; and in a published sets forth le ins tt t ead addressed , a projec t t on his a friend very , large Archbisho scale p , for Tillo givin tson g ,
spinning-work to women at their own houses ; but in the _zealous f considerable avour o a f tt t he p pt emp ersonal to loyed carr loss y as , no the t t to term p be lan s remunerative being for prac framed tice , to he so the much incurred em in
own p vagran loyer . h ts ou , He l beggars d b too e , ta , however k en in oth to , w st rong , k houses ly h recommended ad and no dwell there in em th gs at of st t heir in y
labours , of this kind , urging that I d , esire it to be considered py mal that in this fema trade le , all find sorts of p l ersons t , whe if th of ears youn ab g l et o ld ,
may beat hemp , , d may ress flaxor emp make oymen them ; ready y for the spins , ter , and when be , loyed in weaving itand those of
both sexes spun that , are may not able emp for these , may be put ; to spinning . " He adds a remark which is a curious illustration of how
exclusively this department had been looked on in . this country g irls so , le should ly feminin not e take work to . it Why in Eng boys land , , while for want young _5 of , oth as well er em as
gestion ploymen was t , as adopted in other in places at least , I see one no instance reason , . is ' apparent That his , from
sughouse the recor for d the of City a speec Poor h made in Bishopsgate by one of street the boys , on of the the occasion
Workhe of a visit holding paid by Queen some Anne in to his that hand establishmen " Thes t e , in threads which
says , yarn , , all Madam daily , are emp some loyed of on the the _eax'ly stap fruits le manufacture of our industry of . Eng We land are ,
learning betimes to be useful to the world ; " wool-spinning
244 Woman's Work In The Wound's Clothing...
244 woman ' s work in the _wound ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/28/
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