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    213 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman?s Jou...

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

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    is advice her most time . advantageous any I feel longer , certain , and to that a am youn to afraid g be woman the I was onl , in y not servant giving ' sufficientl her in a a respectable y knowle grateful wife dge and for famil of the the her y duties of in her rank of lifeeither asa servant or a ;

    intimate a woman intercourse with her , mistress consequent on their relative more positions panion She is in also elevates the much kitchen and more . influences Finall an object her can of character you consideration recommend greatl th y . me an to if any she had institution a

    comy , for training maids-of-all-work . Your sincere friend and fellow-worker ,

    Ii . S . G " .

    213 Open Council.

    213 OPEN COUNCIL .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman?S Jou...

    To the Editor of the English Woman ? _s Journal . Madam

    Days Happening " ba , laborer the other ' s daug day hter to take , and up glancing a little book at the entitled introduction " The , it Pearl struck of

    of me the that , undul the y y circumstances low estimation of in its interest which publication women readers were are held so curious , that and a short illustrative account

    of In them 1847 could a benevolent scarcely fail layman to offered your three prizes . to men of the laboring classes of twenty , fivefifteenand ten pounds respectivelfor the three

    best _ISTine essays hundred "On and - the fifty , advantages compositions , conferred were sent on in man ; among by the y them , Sabb was ath one day by . "

    a woman " Sir— , accompanied I have thought by it a letter unnecessary of which to I _inquire give a whether part . offered a female in might

    be adve permitted rtisem , ent to . enter The subject among of the I have the competitors essay looked is of for equal the interest prizes restriction to woman as merel as your to and this being the case your y

    confining man " This , is thi the s effort first to effort the of working , the kind classes I ever . upon made , and I may say I am one of those who had the advantage of attending * school in early days ;

    of except my sisters for two never and years myself ; or rather attended for in school one household , for alternatel it was labor but y , one for in of two attending us years remaining that to one the at

    home one weekto assist mother , or home younger . Since children that , , and time going I hav to e been school const next antl week y occup while ied in the household other stayed labor at , servant in other families

    correspondent either " The in Essay my father in , " tone to ' s use house with the , the or words letter as a in . the It is introduction from indeed which a composition it , " came was . " the found of instruc no to or be - - dinary kindwhether d the source

    in tive udicators the matter composition it , contains , h and in we , faithfulness or the regar the diction manner , to in the in which which other they the competitors materials are expressed constrained are , . worked The ad up to

    j proposed production lay it aside to , that althoug her as the to oug work allow ht not of of to a itsjmblioation be female withheld , yet felt from . independentl at the the world same y . of time It the was that forthcoming therefore it was a

    • prize essays when adjudged . "

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/69/