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    6 EMIGRATION FOR EDUCATE!) WOMEN.

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    Ixtrodttctio^. Among The Many Emigration...

    middle acquaintance -class tradesmen many families _, & c , of with professional , three , four gentlemen , or five , daug farme hters rs ,

    p each and lay , mo on vary st some ing of * whom in musical ages can from instrument make seventeen pastry , ' sing keep to , draw thirty the , household , dance all of , embroider whom accounts can , ,

    iron and starch what are called lig , ht things , nurse a sick member of the householdread aloud a newspaper or novelwalk

    find any distance wearisome , and yet , hours among every all day these ? so The -called fearful occupations mistake ,

    which many has been made for so many years ,, of teaching our is is daug with bearing hters the bitter that young it fruit is peop more in le ; many respectable I never families yet met to . be with I do idle a not young than think industrious or the middle fault - ,

    They unp aged leasantness sing would le lad almost y of "who her invariabl did position not be enter as willing a into superfluity to , and exert full in themselve y Eng appreciate lish s society if , they the .

    knew howit is wethe fathers y and motherswho must , think and lan for ; them ; and , what father or mother , now hesitates ta

    send p a son to the colonies ? and yet the bodily dangers are equal , while the moral dangers are immeasurably greater to sons than

    rem the to daug aining sons hters emi in grated . Eng I land hav , the e myself father when , the mother known father , several and dies three it in is stances or oft four en foun where daug d there hters all

    is little or no provision ; made for the most help , less part of the family __ fit Fathers them make out for great the sacrifices colonies to it establish is we mothers their sons who in mo business st cruell , or y

    neglect our daughters , by not ; insisting on their being also taught to dened provide with for the themselves support of ; the why whole should -when one-half there of is a famil no ph y ysical be bur or

    to moral ridicule make objection , for or b our eing neg to called the lect exertion Cl when strong our - of minded daug all ? hters / Prejudice 7 will are be living but , custom poor unwelcome , excuses fear of

    and repining pensioners , on their male relations . tected Intending females these " I will pages mention particularl no y plan for which what are they called cannot " unpro carry

    out themselves , . The greatest obstacle hitherto to gentlewomen them emigrating without alone , has male been protector the supposed on the voyage impossibility or at their of sendin desti g -

    any . , nation answer , to until this th objection ey ( like , are men there ) can not find man Australi y suitab widows if le with situations onl daug knew . hters In

    how who to would set about gladl it y ? follow Are there their not sons also to many governesses a they , past y middle with or without widowed mothers , and sisterswho are quite

    age , , competent to act as chaperons to the younger ones amount ? If they could are be

    unable made up to much pay all more their easil own y for expenses such a , I purpose believe the than it must

    otherwise It is be true to there keep alive are hundreds those who of are governesses not able to in keep Eng themselve land more s ..

    6 Emigration For Educate!) Women.

    6 EMIGRATION FOR EDUCATE !) WOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/6/