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    how to make puddings and pies , and look after the house , so that they may be useful to their husbands , * not useful to themselves , mark , —not for the purpose of increasing their capability of giving and receiving mutual happiness , but useful as drudges , to vdry their power of administering to sensual appetites , and thus secure

    admittance , in Indian phrase , ' into another man ' s lodgfe '—ia the phrase of civilization , to get their legs beneath another man ' s table / The mother , meanwhile , h&S remarked thfct girls without ' accomplishments' do not readily * go off , ' and she inwardly

    resolves to guide the girls her own fray , though fear of her lofdly master who holds the purse-strings , prevents her giving any otrtward intimation of her ptltpose . A private purse must be saved out of the household , and the girls , nothing loth , are taught fcVery species of hypocrisy , to blind the vigilance of the tyfdht as to the clothes tnfey Wear , and the means whereby they are procured . But even the tyrant agrefes , that it is proper the girls should h&ve aft opportunity of getting settled , ana he reluctantly consents to

    give & dance , though he would rather have a dinnet , &s more coilsonant with his ideas of pleasure and enjoyment . The lady is duly dressed for the occasion , and perchance captivates a youth with fnoney and strong passions , who exclaims that she is a fine girl , which phrase means ' fine animal / for he knows nothing about hef fnindj if either of them chatice to possess one—atid he

    is determined to marry her . So good a chance h not to be neglected , impatient passions cannot wait , by the end of the inbftui the marriage has taken place , atid in two months more the paif discover that they are of clashing dispositions , but that nevertheless they cannot separate , and thus an abundant Supply of misery is provided for the whole family . A sister , meanwhile , has

    attracted the attention of a more wary lover , whose more limited means oblige him to be prudent , add he resolves to make a longer courtship . Moreover , he would wish to ascertain what cash the father will give to boot . The youth is accustomed to trade , afid sees no reason why he should not drive a good bargain in a wife , as well as in Other affairs . Mother as well as daughter are

    fesolved , that so c respectable a suitor , who is ' Well to do in the world , ' shall not slip away from therti if they can help it . The female has not the privilege of * making offers , ' and therefore thinks it tier duty to accept , if she possibly can , the first which comes , lest she should not get another , tint it so happens , that the process of courtship affords no tneans of enabling the parties to acquire a knowledge of each other ' s characters . Some one

    once replied , on being asked the character of a woman , * th&t he had not been married to her / He was right , and so must the matter continue under present regulations . The lover makes his * Mr . Peaoock has mad © hits pertonrfiefttion of Common Sttnto , Dotior FbJfiot , op * hold the same doctrine . Fit emblem of the 8 t « t « Ghurth—ttM * fe gflrtHt&tioft ,

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    On the Condition of Women in England . 2 S ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/7/