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

      of mode clerk whereb . Such y a discourag woman mi ing ght tones appear are In not a in more unison favorable with the sphere emotions than that now

      livelihood so ripe in and women making ' s minds themselves for securing more useful to themselves and more a honorable more independent members their of society views . contrib The discouragements ute in a measure in to the bias pub the lic public papers mind and and the are influence inimical of

      to its future progress , its full development of success . , Trusting I have not made my letter too long , I am , with all due respect ,

      Madam , One who keeps herself ,

      jkL * O » Cheltenham , 7 th January , 1860 ,

      Open Council. 137

      OPEN _COUNCIL . 137

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

      To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal * Widows and Single "Women at _Frankfout-.

      1 am Madam not , myself acquainted with Frankfort , but as soon as I saw j . S . _&

      letter receive in d the your information Journal of I gave last respectin month , g I wrote the position to the of lad widows y from there whom , and I I now enclose some extracts from her answer" You request me to let

      . you know a it certain occurred the number facts . In of Frankfort allowe the story d in there at each Frank . are When fort so many . a You man guilds have dies of not his each stated widow trade it , can and quite onl as y carry

      she on the may business retire into , if the a Frankfort large townpairper woman , ) -hosp and ital if , she which has , is the very means comfortable ; if not . , A single woman can keep a shop , if she is Frankfort born ; if she marries hers a

      The foreigner chief , even dressmaker a Darmstadt Madam _^ r , e his name is a cannot French _apj woman > ear , it her must husband be is . she a tailor borrows , has her his own brother shop , -in and -law c ' annot swho , give is not his in name business to two , , No and Frank therefore forter

      , . can It hav appear e two s from shops this . There , that are my several error consisted other small in say vexatious ing that regulations no widow . " could carry admit on business that this in her makes own name material , instead difference of saying and no forei regret gn widow having .

      made I quite the mistake . It strikes me , a that if Madame , s , the chief dressmaker ' s , husband were to die , that she must either retire from business this or

      and marry whether a Frankforter he would . consider I should it like a hard to know case or J . not S . . ' s opinion on point , The Writer of

      "A Stroll through : _Boulogne . "

      To The Editor Of The English Woman''S Jo...

      To the Editor of the English Woman' ' s Journal * Madam

      , this Having _j ) eriodical read with entitled much " What pleasure can your Educated article Women in the December do ? " in which number you of

      for in speak which women of the , I superintendence thoug , proved ht your herself readers of workhouses quite would equal be as interested to an this appropriate situation in hearing emp Mrs of loyment _Davics a case

      was left a a wi woman dowsixteen or seventeen years ago , by the governor . . of the there Cardiff had workhouse long mainly , . The depended guardians upon h knowing er , elected he at r the to fill good the v management acant place ,

      vol . v . x

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/65/