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XXVIII.—LADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND.
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You want to know how we ladies manage to...
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_SADIESLIFE IN SHETLAND .
Xxviii.—Ladies' Life In Shetland.
XXVIII . —LADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND .
You Want To Know How We Ladies Manage To...
You want to know how we ladies manage to amuse _ourselves - hav and e mak no libraries e the time no pass agreeabl no theatres y in Shetl no railways and . You no schools say we _?
no markets , no lecture , operas rooms , , no " Societies , , " and , worse than all , no society ! You say you can fancy a gentleman getting or *
prett a even whole y they well , seem must in those to find prefer outlandish it a being dull uncomfortable life reg som ions etimes , because . (?) M ; gentlemen y but dear you frien think , as d
you were never so much mistaken in all your life . If there is a place in the world where a lady may have plenty to do , and
plenty of amusements with which to while away her leisaredown hours , there it is in for Shetland half-an- . honr You —see look ! do incredulous a bit of , this very crochet well— for sit
willing me , and - to I be will bored prove for a what little— I protest you are so all decidedl attention y . —very You well are .
will I say beg again in b , y and supposing now , ma you chere to be _, I wil a Shetland l commence lady my , and lecture a " blu . e I
stocking are a lover . " of Ah " ! literature you think science that too and repulsive art" a as titl Chambers e . Well ! you has
it . You like to read books , —even , to write , them—and study nature . You have the widest of wide fields for following those
pursuits in Shetland . A very moderate sum will suffice to bring you from Mudie ' s all the books you wish ; and the mail
pap steamer ers and will periodicals carry to you as , you every choose week to , as invest goodl in y , a or supp as l your y of
southern friends care to send you . ( You see you are not so much " out of the world " as imagined . ) You can haveas
most likely you would in more you civilized regions , a little room , in some snug corner of your dwelling-house , where you can unpack
material and hoard 1 s ; and up all you manner may spend of books hours , and and hours papers in , this and sanctum writing , *
Latin dyeing , without your fingers dread with of some ink , and morning wrinklin - caller g your invading brows your with domain with a clatter of gossip and a lap-dogand no fear of an
, inquisitive casual acquaintance intruding on your privacy for thepurpose of retailing to other casual acquaintances all she saw in
your that if room ever , and a _" blue all you stocking said , " and lived the conclusion are that on she e . came to ,
I will tell you one amusement in the , you book line which we found very diverting and instructive . Our family was a large one , so
we organized an Essay Society ( what was that you said about our having no " Societies ? " ) among * the members of our own
household . Each one wrote something on a given subject , a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/22/
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