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    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....

    science cannot recall by reiterated the past : appeals but is it against not to the such aw individual akening of cases the ' of public irreparable '

    conwrong , that we owe the protection of many women , the salvation of many children ?"

    On Social Separation and Satires on Women , read what follows : that the second current portion criticism of the which extract , during expresses the last but year too trul lias y disgraced the effect the of

    pages of more than one first-class periodical . mit " But me to before bring I to enter your on Lordshi the woman p ' ' s tice sphe re' ( much gerou -abused s misap phrase prehension !) per- ,

    gaining and because even I ground in find one that by or two frequent it has strong latel iteration ones y caused ; . and It disturbance that has , i been n spite said in of many in its a absurdity popular weak minds , , well it is , - and desire to be considered

    written as a separate review class that in women the community consider themselves , with separate , interests , pursuits , and , " d at with desire to

    similate aims , from ourselve those s of to men men . , and We a are desire reproache to separate once ourselves from a men ; and assolemnlwarned against the social evils and moral perils of such an

    we are y assumption " MLord to ourselve I deny absolutel s and to y the , on community the part of at my large countrywomen . , any such y , ! tl misconception

    Eng it could desire is lish the , prevail any women desire such , with and on assumption their regard ambition own to the . of condition women N views " more and and to be feelings requirements a considered , more entertained unjust . in On all b the the y intelli relations contrary gent ,

    , not all the to be conditions ted of from life , men domestic but to and be social allowed , as to the be nearer helpmate to them . We ; to pray be separa

    istence considered but not as a merel part y of as his the life , appendage and all that and is garnish implied of in man the ' s real outward sense ex of

    the word , . "We see the strong necessity , in many cases , yet we do regret that and the avocations societyand of that men thus accustom a great them number to dispense of women with are much thrown of our sympath their y

    own resources , mental and social . Every circle of men from which upon women are excluded supposes , a certain number of women separated ade uncomfortable from them . I

    _JSToio do not _, however find that , they this state seem , of all things at surel once has , it to , hitherto is be not struck to , be m with men uted it as to an anomalous .

    fault of state the , or and sexes as I an am when assumption glad I was of it in . ; of America but I saw the .- y effects I thought of this too it kind did imp not of social act women well separation on as the a iness the either The men often became coarse and

    material happ as or clay _^ in manners private life , and . in public life too prone to cudgels and revolvers ; and the effect of the women herding them into so much various together absurd was and not to

    refine observations feminine them exaggerations , but much the contrary . possible Thi ; s at to to throw least was time my impression and country . I else confine I mig un my ht

    enlarge separation on of these as the two influences as sexes , arising and show our from own that quite in different Italy , causes as in , America is producing , the

    , , even " I worse am speaking results . onl * y * of the * , general impressions I brought away from and do not to either onlI

    should America be and sorry from to see Ital the y , same causes presume prevail and jud produce ge the country same , effects y ruffianism

    in this England of ours . The best safeguard against , as against fessions profligacy which , lies necessarily in the true relation divide us between from men men during and women some hours . There of the are day pro . -

    are Lawyers married , government and have homes ofhcers , , spend merchants much , of soldiers their , should tim sailor e out s thi , even of them when . They they be ,

    ' carried should be farther careful than that is it inevitable is not too ? much Why . do Wh clubs y , academies s separation , charitable

    346 Notices Of Books.

    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/58/