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THE TEEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS. 251
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XLV.—ON THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS...
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Nine the royal year assent s have . now ...
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It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...
collec conver t t it it into t cloth hen sold until it eventuall in quantities the M to anches those ter who purchasers were to
established agents ; in the different y villages to purchase and re-sell it to the weavers , who had now largely though not quite
ent Nor irely was superseded the custom the u webs which ters assi " of gned earlier the times spindle . to the
sp " Wonderful inster quite Robert invariable Walker , for / ' in clergym an in teresting who held account a chapel of
in accus Cumberland tomed while from engaged 1736 to in 1802 teaching ; he t is o fur men ther tioned occupy as being
himtheir self wi lessons th the spinning his side wheel and , while often the cont children inuing t were he same repea kind ting * _
of labour in the y evening , after school hours , only exchanging , for the sake of exercisethe small wheel at which he had sate
the for the in large to step to which and , fro wool An is spun witness , and which thus describes requires
spner . eyethe I found worth him y clergyman _sittingdressed and his in famil a coar y : se blue G-oing frock into his checked house
, , and shirt wooden , a leather -soled strap shoes about with his a neck child for on a his stock knee , a coarse his wife apron and ,
on the each rest of other the children the rest were , some sinning of them and emp Ci teasing loyed ; " in w waiting oolat
which he is a grea , t proficient p ; and moreover when it is read , y back made and he w ill foo lay t f it , b seven y six or teen ei or ht m thir iles ty-two pounds t to marke , upon t even his
in the , depth of winter . " It g was perhap carry s exceptional for a of man his to househo take such ld and a share the in m this eans department bwhich , t hey t the were descri provided ption
with apparel for themselves and a surp y lus of saleable commodity , would probably have still applied very generally to the dwellers
in rural districts at that period .
The Teeatment Of Female Convicts. 251
THE TEEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS . 251
Xlv.—On The Treatment Of Female Convicts...
XLV . —ON THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTSA Paper Bead at the Social Science Congress at Edinburgh . By Mary Carpenter .
Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
Nine the royal year assent s have now Long elapsed and since unwearied the Reform efforts atory were Act required received to
. b obtain its it supporters ? and after it many passed painfu almost l and unnoticed difficult strugg by the les public made
throug y h the houses , of Parliament , . Even more difficult was it , to enlist society to co-operate in the measure . The enterprise
into of reforming useful members guilty children of society , and was eventual supposed ly transform to be ing that them of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/35/
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