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THE PAUPER AND THE PEASANT SPINNER. 245
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It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...
having formed their daily task . The principle the involved famous in author such
o schemes f " Robinson as these Crusoe was " warml and y othe co r mba les t s ce b lebr y ated writers , who
strong not ly urged ers that " Besides , rk would " said thus De foe take " workhouses n from those oug who ht
were paup ; ,, n ti o tion t to w engage ith the i n im manufac ited capital tures of , becau private se individuals it is an unfair . " But compe the - schemusuallless
best arguments concerning any e are y conmost vincing satisfactoril than a fair t se rial ttled of when it , and the the experiment question therefore of providing was
t t hroug his emp h l the oymen zealous t for y th exertions e hbmeless of p Mr oor . Carey fully who tested afterwards , chiefly
where wrote a at history its erection of the in attempt 1696 , the in the nen workhouse ma , nufacture at Bristol was at ,
once in , troducedeven to the extent , of setting the boys as well ra themselves ha as tes v the ing were girls bee found , compelled n to incu sp , to inning rred have to , , relinquish that increased and c the arried paroch so the much on unprofitable u ial , t besides il au 1714 thorities scheme la , w rge hen found deb . the ts
bined As th to condemn retical argumen these well ts , and -mean prac t but tical mistaken proofs , thus lans com the - p
idea was at last abandonedand the distaff which had been , the lea as sym st once bol from of it had wo the been degradation anho , by , thoug que , of ens h falling i t had d pr exclusivel i long ncesses ceased , y ye into t to was be the saved grasped parish at
hands of paupers . pr have e B far p y seen progressed the tion ei began o g hteenth texti that to le fabrics be century in inaugurated m beco , the lace ming great s it in had sp the change ecial quite sixteenth pr which o ceased fession , of as to , had the we be
numbered m so domestic ore and more among loyment looked the pursuits upon for any all rather . p of At as this v a business te time life , and it for appears was some being than that
in a the Midland emp and Southern countieswomen , even among the had little to do with the production , of , clothingbeyond
under poor making , -garments and mending for mal their e wear own ; . and but their in the children North ' ( excep att , , t , and we
facturing may suppose districts , in ) the it was immediate still common neighbourhood for almost of every the manu article
famil of dress y , year to be often made by of year from woollen , sp its inning very also - commencement and the weaving of the its at home own latter web ; each of
linenand , yarn being As only the sent , coarse away lin to en be d for yed even when a required labourin for woman outwar ' d s vestments shift could . g
not the being then be able obtained at least for partiall less than y to produce one-and- it fivepence herself must per yard still , have been a valuable lishmentbut such labour was by
accomp ,
The Pauper And The Peasant Spinner. 245
THE PAUPER AND THE PEASANT SPINNER . 245
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/29/
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