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252 THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS.
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
amiable enthusiasts . Scepticism as to the possible results widel should y prevailed do with _, and children we were wh sarcasticall en we had y reformed asked what them we ! -
were We pers establishing evered ; we our - our were work nothing on prin 1 daunted ciples ; which and we must believed were based that we on
immortal truth—truth which was great prevail ;—that all the the hu imperfections work was undertaking , of Gro and d and errors And must the which succeed progress are , insep when of the arable freed work from from in
find most these every voluntary sanguin few m years an e antici effort has pations surpassed equal . . to We the what were task would asked of have grapp where been ling we - with then should the our
juvenile extent of crim our e needs of the ; country for wherever ? Yet a it Reformatory abounded asked to where has the been full
required should find , there Teachers it has able sprung and willing up . We to undertake were so repulsive we
and untried a work ? We had faith that the very necessity would call forth those who were able to supply it , and we have lack of and
' peculiarl hear not been t and y mistaken soul qualified to it , for for deli thi th s hting ere especial is in no it work and , and therefore men who devote doing women their it as
it should be done . , We were g told that , there would always hang about our childrenwhen we had done our best for them , that
taint of crime which , must unfit them to be received into society ; when we find course that they of training are willing and ly and instruction even gladl for y a received sufficient into time it , -
in a Reform a atory has prepared them to do their duty in life . We have had the happiness of seeing them m snatched aintaining from a
resp the e most ctable dissolute position and in degraded society—young families persons , who had has themselves endorsed
our comm reformatory enced a career work , and of crime we have . P had ublic the op satisfaction inion to the of hearing
tance the hig and hest success civic authority of iteven openl in y bear a district testimony where formerl impor y the
-, utmost Gladl scep would ticism we prevailed consider . our task completed . Gladly would
vering we cannot believe ly y doing that Wh our we at work we have hav , now ever e been only striving permitted to go towards on steadil to perfection do y onl and y reveals . perse But
to we us what . has not been done—what at present we , cannot do . Among the hundreds sent to , our Reformatories there failures , —and in there
thismust paper alway we will s be sp so e . ak Some only are of g snatched irls , — from are us by abandoned ; parentswho use the influence of parental authority to drag
endeavoured their daug , hters to rescue back them into . the Some vortex after from but a which short stay we with had
usreturn to low and dissipated homes , , from which they cannot ,
252 The Treatment Of Female Convicts.
252 THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/36/
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