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    80 MIDDLE-CLASS FEMALE EMIGRATION

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    _ V Some Years Ago The Fishermen Of A Sm...

    By sending us such women , England will confer upon her colonies the greatest benefit she has ever "bestowed . Her

    superabundant and neglected daughters will find home and happiness in the New World , and the seeming curse will become a real

    blessing . C . E . C . As a pendant to the foregoing paper we insert an article

    extracted from the Melbourne Argus of June 17 th . " We have been favoured with a copy of a little pamphlet by Maria S . Rye ,

    in headed the promotion Mmigration of of the Educated writer ' s object Wome , ? z b , y and advo we cating have our been own asked colony to assist as afield for the migration of the particular class to which Miss Rye's appeal is

    received addressed from . Miss "Victoria Rye speaks and from of some I _^ ew encouragement South Wales . which One she correspondent has already writes to her to say that ' qualified teachers and governesses are very much

    wanted indeed in Australia ; ' and another , that ' large incomes are earned believes by many to hig be hly the accomp strongest lished argument women . ' in Miss favour Rye herself of the movement gives us what , in the she

    lian statistical colonies fact ; , and that she there winds are up 155 w , 636 ith more a somewhat men than touching women suggestion in the Austra , that - ' surely we may take courage , and hope tkat there , amidst the many

    homesteads of our wonderful colonial possessions , some at least of our many worthy , industrious " So excellent , poor a young project countrywomen deserves more may supp be ort safel than y p we lanted are . able ' to give it ,

    with and more Miss success Rye ' s pamp than hlet it is . likel As y advocates to have . We of immi hardl gration y know to how the to fullest deal extent—of immigration without respect of classes or conditions—of '

    indiswelcome criminate any immi efforts gration which , ' to may use tend Mr . to Hi the ginbotham increase ' s of phrase population —we are in "Victoria glad to > . they So far would as Miss be Rye's special the most friends desirable are of concerned immigrants , there . It is cannot no doub be t said that

    in the language among of the _oj _> ponents of immigration , that the number of educated , women surplus in of the this colony sort of is imp alread orts y over in excess and above of the what demand the cap ; italists or that are there able is to a

    wit consume h-the . deman It may d of be a difficult commodity to fix of any this rule nature by which , but we to measure may safel the y assume supply with generall existing educated y social that women arrangements there is , let no the prospect immigration whatever be as of great the market as it can being be , with glutted , our

    . women "It is in one the abstrac thing , t however and another , to approve to of the them immi to gration come of here educated bthe --promises and hopes held , forth by Miss encourage Maria S . Rye . We must remember y

    the that ordinary these are princi an exceptional ples which govern sort of immi immi gration grants , at who large do . not To com the e various within great class field classes , of accession we of emp can artisan loyment promise to s the and ; and number lab at ourers least to ev of ery a , we immi living sober are grants , able in and any to of able insure cours circumstances -bodied e an will man almost come , . of With a unlimited whatever deman any d

    civilized Jor all the community various classes ; and and it is conditions in this way of no society , doubt which that we go may to confidentl make up y a ment look forward to any lar to _^ the e and immi general gration scheme of educated of immi women gration , as a But necessary if it is a comp t le of

    _-UVXissRye ' s project that educated women are to be . assisted hither par at the public _^ expense , to supply any existing want , we are afraid that she will have '

    imm but little igrants suppor broug ht from out , those on such who terms know . We what are is afraid likely Miss to be R the ye is condition deceiving of , .

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    80 Middle-Class Female Emigration

    80 MIDDLE-CLASS _FEMALE _EMIGRATION

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/8/