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    428 , open council.

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    To the Editor of the JEnglish Woman's Jo...

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    may ourselve help s b and y their our sex advice . It and is not greater a question knowledge men of the practical difficulties us ; they is and must be done

    believe before dogmaticall us all , but good — the "It and duty is wise of sad men independence necessity will ~ be that with the us ours , _merciless it is not they blind who workings write . We so of

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    bad sad minor and foolish key _shoiild cry "when be uttered , uttered the in cry that to key give . the In means a more of living to y

    _destitute women . " * We do not believe the sad necessity of want awarded to us , or that it is our Grod duty which to beg forbids our bread when working we can earn for their it . own There living is nothing and * in for the those word who of

    women , need arises their that help it becomes ; and in the the duty present of state of woman society t to be necess able ity to fulfil so freq it well tly . .

    I have , in these few lines carefully avoided every the subject of woman ' s rights ; our duties are more interesting to us at present .

    Yours truly , E , II .

    428 , Open Council.

    428 , open council .

    To The Editor Of The Jenglish Woman's Jo...

    To the Editor of the JEnglish Woman ' s Journal .

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    used slandered correspondent as I thoug middle , ht " aged A every Londoner X _3 recaution , _" , who against appears me in that a on tone this evil of , resentful occasion but in vain indignation for the . Your poor

    intimate as if I had friends made - a Before personal women she attack , answers _lied on io herself letter , her she near should relatives have , and read her it , ; my ,

    deserved and I began read the it by in ep recognising such ithet . a " way long as the , " to which rep ausp take icious its she meaning rather fact that si , gnificantl though several I y cannot peop bestowed le deny have upon that muc it it ] . i irlsand that

    improved their notions with respect to young g , beginning was intended with ing of whose the as distinction doings a delicate I between comp to liment the sorro enli to g the w htened more present few conversant company and the than , swini and with sh an multitude establish those of _* , -

    better informed people am . I afterwards my go onto say that " where no such .

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• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/68/