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246 woman's work in the wobld's clothing...
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It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...
e ven mean his s confined twere to also the very most poor usuall , for the the yeoman work from ' s shirt firs , t to
last of his own , wife or daughter . Here y and there , perhaps an burl opulent form farmer on indul Sunda ged s in in the h ext as ed vagance broadclo of th encasing but his
persons y were to be found y in purc a very respectable , position many in coats society or w waistcoats ho had never and looked their indeed lives w on orn a shop boug - made t stockings coat as ,
a mark , of pride and , reckless expenditure . In the Hihlands of Scotlandt more primitive customs
still lingered g and in many a famil , ye there no stranger hands whatever intermeddled , with the fleece or the fibre whence their
raiment lants were was derived reared . By t w heir oman juice ' s care ext , even racted the to dye colour -yielding the
to fabric p earl s which antiqui they ty , which wove , , in as the om writer of the wlio simp gives lest form this , accoun known t
w re hen mark w om , w e n had not very little expedi else to tious do , and u thoug it was h it reckoned did very a w degra ell for
dation for a man to follow suck _, effeminate occupation . " He adds a _regretj that a loom was now coming into use " of such
that const useful ruction ele as in ant and great ve measure nerable bran to p reclude of femal the sex from
loment , " a regret , g which , we opine was hardly shared emp by his y sisters .
But harder work than even that of the loom fell to females in Kasay some showed parts , for Doctor in " Johnson BoswelPs the Tour operation , " it is related of working that cloth Lady
Hi i . e . of hlands thickening was effected it as b is women done in kneeling a mill , on but the which ground in and the ,
beatin g g it with their hands y . While such were the toils of amateur female cloth-workers
the professional spinner in the manufacturing districts does not , Clothing appear to Arts have were been graduall in a very ceasing enviable to be numbered condition . The
the pursuits of private life y and becoming more and more among a arate branch of industrya change of incalculable benefit to
the sep mass of the female population , , inasmuch as by releasing them from the necessityfor excessive and almost unceasing
suits manual . No labour longer , it compelled gave them , to leisure find their for stap other le and emp loftie loymen r pur t in
left a " vile no room occupation for the " ( exercise as Sir Phili of the p Sidney mind had they called were it now ) which not
only at liberty to pay attention to the arts which , promote domestic comfortand thus make home attractive to their husbands
fathers their powers , , or brothers , and , disp but lay had ing opportunity such capabilities , for cultivating as have all at ,
length raised them to a position on a level in many respects
246 Woman's Work In The Wobld's Clothing...
246 woman ' s work in the wobld ' s clothing-.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/30/
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