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    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED - 81

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    enter portation lady patronesses any of human governesses in brain Melbourne . into There Victori is or no Sy a is article dney , in fact . , perhaps A , as general wild , in a speculation scheme the labour arket for as market the could im- ,

    where of less the general value demand of educated than women governesses is less . appreciated There is no than m Melbourne perhaps . at That home sort cannot of genteel but be servitude atlaggravated which poor in gentlewomen a country find so where intolerable those

    ment who have have , the not wealth much have wealth gre rarel . y y As the a rul refinement e , young and those are better who , have offwith refine all - their miserable pittance , in England , than , governesses in Victoria of , a the mon butler g our , which newly

    rich are . The equality the hardest of the trials lady ' of s-maid the —the patronage at homehave indeed — no parallel better the governess among her here prospects ; . but For it , an is we v educated ery cannot question conceive woman able governess , whe a of more hi ther gh hopeless the class change , who , venture conies is in , favour if here she to of is

    to pretty be a barmaid governess . all There her is days not . She a housemaid had better who be would a good not plain turn cook up or her a nose advertisement at her in office any could Melbourne unfold labour a -office heart . -rending The p tale igeon of -holes sadness of and our

    woe , of the poor - gentlewoman and many her disappointed hopes and defeated ambitions . to

    perceive remed "If y Miss that how R sexual ye we 's are object disproportion to g is ive not any so aid much to which of to the provide she kin refers d desired us , we with are to governesses the still imm at a igration loss as to

    attached of educated in these women colonies . The while fact that there there is a are lus some of 700 150 , 000 000 maidens bachelors in un the - does old country Miss K , is certainly to not , remove creditable this to scandal our surp Australian from our manhood , doors ? . Are But we how to - ye propose

    open a national Hymeneal Office , for the greater facilitation of marriages ? kind educated Or up , is on clearl what young y terms attended men are ? Any we with to indiscriminate bring danger out . We educated venture have young heard , in a matter women of a state of , to this the match being delicate duties our the

    father of its people , but is there not some risk in its undertaking wh of the at if peop th le do ' s father not suit -in- the law ? We men may ? bring What the shall young we do women with the here articles , but ey young

    which disproportion don't ' which move off at , ' present and the exists goods between which the are sexes found in unsaleable this colony ? is The unthe indis

    doubtedl bachelors criminate y will a importation great probabl social y insist of evil educated , but upon we their doubt young right if women it of is free determination to be from selection cured Eng . b land y They . may Our

    not want to be married at allhowever odious this may appear to Miss Rand her friends , . Moreoveris there nothing due to existing the interests imported ? ye Are article our ? sp It insters is a fallacy already to on suppose , hand to that be our neg home lected market in favour is so of

    there entirel was y bare a deman as that d for we educated are compelled women to as depend wives for upon our forei educated gn produce men . Miss J £ men But Rye we may without are be compelled sur wives e that in to she this say would hemisp that have there here heard , is there no of such it are with demand very sufficient few . who Of distinctness the would 150 , , 000 be .

    customers ticular for than Miss th Rye were , unless wont her to educated be . The women truth are isthat prepared the number to be less of marriageable par educated ey women in the world is out of all , proportion to the

    us number top far of from educated our immediate men who subject are prep to ared enter to upon marry the them reasons . It for would this land state lead the

    requirements of things ; -but of it modern is sufficientl social y life notorious have p that laced mat Victori rimo a ny , as pr in actica Eng lly out , of

    Impartially Considered - 81

    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED - 81

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/9/