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    OPEN COUNCIL. 207

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    XXX.—OPEN" COUNCIL. [As these pages are ...

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    To the Editor of the English TVoma?i > s...

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    A. Layton N Jessay . On Life Jlssura?Ice...

    conj For un not ction only with is it hi other ghly occupations remunerative , and , but thus it can add be considerabl carried on y in to would do well to

    narrow resources . The life assurance companies appeal but wonder more directl that y to female * the influence variety than of is efforts now done made ; and to we obt can ain

    assurancesfemales among are so seldom appealed to , although it is ,

    practised mostly for their benefit .

    Open Council. 207

    OPEN COUNCIL . 207

    Xxx.—Open" Council. [As These Pages Are ...

    XXX . —OPEN" _COUNCIL . [ As these pages are Intended for general discussion , the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed . J

    To The Editor Of The English Tvoma?I > S...

    To the Editor of the English TVoma ? i s Journal ,

    You My . ask dear me _Fhiejstds what is my _, impression about middle-class female education in whether at least ? is

    Eng so " midd often land le , t -class he whether case ? " , I it And mus is reall t again answer y , good Have you , or you by a chiefl question y in . v , iew What the improving do education you mean of As our by

    l be arge greatly towns qualified , or are you according thinking . to of the the definitions country at I large might ? receive My ans of wers your woul ob d - jects of inquiry towns . in thimighty London especiall—a sliht

    con-In our large —s yvery g tween sideration the classes will show educated that there in National are several British marked or Birkbeck intermediate schools step , and s be the - _^_ __

    class classes boarding able to schools avail themselves bhi of hl the , -educated higher , education vernesses dispensed and masters _, ajLiirst- .

    -, or y gygo Below College these , Harley , but -street in rank ; H No yde . 1 Park , I should College place , at such Westbourne establishments -terrace as ; Q and _-ueen the ' s these not institutions in

    patronised Ladies' College bthe , Bedford nobility -square for their . Yet daughters are With some few general

    excannot ceptions see they that y are on the attended whole b therefore y young ladies they can of . the be taken upper out middle very of the class range . I

    No of middle 1 You -class will education find in , onl them , y , as a I mixtur have , said e of , I professions should place and them of in retired rank

    brewer merch . . ants wine or merchant tradesmen . or You a wholesale cannot exclude dealer in the furniture daughter , from of a a prosperous

    boardingschool , or a college of the , highest description ; and surely brewers , mernumbered chants of every kind the , middle booksellers classes , paper . makers , printers , etc ., are properly among

    Let us comehoweverto middle class No . 2 . This will probably include many of the former , descri , ption ; ' there will be the who daug have hters not of tradesmen reached

    the and hi merchants gher of the grades literary , but of also their class those professions These of professional will . be There disposed men will , be of artists some at ; there the yet colleges will be

    some many some at will the be colleg sent iate out school to . country s , some boarding will have -schools daily of , governesses the less ( not at of home the , ,

    least "Would ) expensive you inquire kind . whether I think the education of certainl girls of this class There is

    that are improving things a perception in ? which I would of I past answer feel errors confident , with is leading of a qualification a growing by degrees improvement , to a y _niore Yes . I . rational believe

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/63/