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    354 OPEN COUNCIIi.

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    them All rather tlie professions than govemessing you mention or nothing are better .. ; but than are nothing they the * , and hig so hest let to us which have

    women In France can be _"women admitted are emp ? loyed as compositors and and other in manufactures all branches of printing but the ,

    emp also loyments in the manufacture which can " of be said tobacco to , fit gentlewomen to many themwhich are mi not ht very with numerous advantage ; . There arehoweversome avenues open , in g ,

    be stock entered -brokers , by , us and in , Eng some land women are . Many acting to inferior ladies as ov are erseer offices engaged s in of the est commerce ates Bureaux . The ; de some French Tdbao are ent often names

    ladie authority governm and in s try the to that post gain - Mr office admittance . Rowland . Apropos Hill to the of _would the examination post willing -office ly of , emp candidates we loy materiall have women heard , and . assist offer Let on their some good to be French and which would y

    examined in _German , a course chances another "Might Eng of not success lish women lad if they here be architects were might young say ? " proposes men '"' Wh . y should one Eng they lish not resident be farmers here ? ; " and for

    she Engrossing farms her for own lawyers land y deli in htful has Eng been land and proposed , cheerful , and make as work s work money no by by doubt which it .. , for ladie educated s might gain livelihood ,

    ladie better s a ! pay but than they governessing can ; get g about or one needlework half-penny . There for seventy time is a tried young words to lad , get and y work here that for b is

    refused her engrossing health her " for who the law has stationers been lea that a teacher there ; she was , went and not who down enoug at and one h for inquired the men for , " work that , females it was y

    on p were The such last poor plea creatures can be they answered execute could b not y but showing do the it . " first what however excellent baseless good , is work not will make women ,

    tion necessity so easil which y got men over make , and to it women is to hel entering , p a triump their h trades over the , as unmanl they call y opposi them - ,

    that Public your voice inion is eminentl must be y needed changed . , and the cowardly opposition of the op

    printers Women , the have watchmakers been driven their , and out workmen china of many painters leaving workshops rendered them by have impossible absolute been _. . force obliged , and to

    master submit If once s , silentl b public y threats y and opinion to of them pass leads over to towards be this cowardl ht emp after loy y . ing conduct Most women , emp . loyer , the s cheapness and masters of , their labor will cause soug _woiild

    if find onl work y they in were some free parts to act of , and their wliieh had organisation the believe matter to broug speaking give ht to before those hl them who is , what only

    require half the wages of men , -I , rougy , women I remem expect ber to seeing get . in the mint for coining the State and of sorting Pennsylvania , at I Philadel inquired

    particularl p worke hia , many d ten y hours young into and their women did hours working the same of work , amount and , their of work wages , the money ; men . women . and received women _, of

    about We land half should where the like _wages both to know are men emp what . loyed , are the at . the relative same wages work of , and men we and would women of their ask in

    knowledge Eng some of labor your , . We that numerous believe correspondents if only loyers publicity to in let were ite us of g have iven all , the the to the possible benefit low . price opposi of - , .

    tion female of their , workmen many , would more persist emp believe in emp , much loy sp ing them can . We be appeal made to at the the ,

    present self-interest day b of y substituting masters "' , for women we in many , to them money new branches . of manufacture ''

    . . . I remain , Madam Yours , trul B y , L . S . _Bodichon .

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    354 Open Counciii.

    354 OPEN COUNCIIi .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/66/