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    7S MIDDI/E-OLASS FEMALE EMIGRATION

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    discussions , it must not be forgotten , are not unheard at the Antipodes because they occur in England . They will be copied into the colonial

    newspapers , read by hundreds of people , and talked of by thousands —talked of in no pleasant way . An independent population like ours

    will resent the having even benefits thrust upon them . We all know how children struggle against and resist even the most delicious

    dfood which is forced down their throats , while if it is merely put but within children their reach of a larger they will growth make / 7 and efforts it is to certain obtain that it . after " Men . all that are

    has been said , the very fact of a number of ladies being sent out under such circumstances , will at once place them in a false position

    and create a strong prejudice against them . But let the colonists send for them for themselvesas the Times proposesand the affair

    will assume quite a different , aspect . This would be , a difficult , but I think not an impossible arrangement . There has already been

    In operation a plan for enabling the labouring classes to send for their relatives by means of Government aid , they paying part of

    the passage money . Could not a somewhat similar plan be anized for ladies ? There must be many men in Australia and

    America org who would be glad to have their sisters and nieces to keep house for themif they had them there ; but first they know not

    , whether they are fit for the work , then perhaps they cannot command the necessary ready money to pay the whole of their passage ,

    and then they do not like to send for their young relatives without the certainty of a suitable escort . Could these difficulties be

    conquered , could some training school fit them for household occupations and inform them what to expect in colonial life , and could

    some well-managed scheme ensure their being conveyed safely and inexpensively to their destinationI believe that applications

    would flow in upon the emigration , society , and that with little , if any additional expense , its operations might be extended in an

    extraordinary degree . The difficulty of conveyance is not slight , though far from

    Insurmountable . The cost of first-class accommodation is too great to be thought ofand in the crowded second cabin a delicately

    nurtured woman , is liable to be injured in that which should be most scrupulously preserved—in her self-respect—the quality of all

    others most necessary to one who leaves friends , home , country , to make her way alone and unaided in a new world . Those who have

    never been at sea can hardly realize the trials and temptations that beset the idleness of a long voyage . A number of men and women

    utterly unknown to one another are suddenly thrown into far closer contact than is ever possible on land . They have left all their

    occupations behind them . They encounter together an entirely new life and are dependent upon each other for all that makes that

    life endurable . Of course they are liable to make mistakes and for these mistakes the weakest must suffer .

    r . We all knpw what class forms a large proportion of the young

    7s Middi/E-Olass Female Emigration

    7 S MIDDI _/ _E-OLASS FEMALE EMIGRATION

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/6/