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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), August 1861, Edition 1 of 1, Page 410

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    • I.XIV,—FATHERS A^D DAUGHTERS. ' ¦ ' ¦
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      of , in their schoolroom ; by the side of the suffering or the erring , whose onlhome is the -workhouse ; by the sick-bed of the wretched

      pauper , whose y soul a whispered prayer _^ a remembrance of the Saviour ' s love , may send with a heritage of hope upon that dark

      river which floats bur life intothe great eternity . < R .

      410 Fathebs And Daughters. V

      410 _FATHEBS AND DAUGHTERS . V

      I.Xiv,—Fathers A^D Daughters. ' ¦ ' ¦

      I _. XIV _, —FATHERS A _^ D _DAUGHTERS . ' ¦

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      —¦ — '' _~ "' — ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ - ? - .. . . . The appearance in the Daily News of July 6 th of an - excellent letter signed " Rachel" affords us an opportunity of referring to

      certain correspondence lately carried on in the Times newspaper which miht otherwise appear to lie beyond the limits which the

      Editors of g this Journal rigorously impose upon all communications addressed to its pages . With letters so obviously fictitious in

      character , so low in moral tone , and so painfully insulting to womenboth young andoldin the aristocratic classes of English

      , , , society , we could upon their own merits have nothing to do . _For obvious reasons we permit less of an aggressive tone than would _Hbe

      perfectly harmless in any other periodical , while on some points of i large morality the , J of _^ _gklish profoundl _Woman y vital ' s Joijk import _^ ai to , is our habituaU sex and y and to the intentionall _people at y

      silent , . It was the opinion , of one who was in life our best friend and adviserMrs . Jamesonthat the work immediatelyin hand required

      to be dealt , with in a mode , which would allow of the youngest readers entering profitably on the problems we desire to solve ; and

      therefore we repeat , that the extraordinary letters in the Times purporting to be signed by Belgravian mothers and fathers , being , as Rachel

      observes , degrading in themselves , and insulting to all feelings of morality" lie beyond our boundaries of _discussibni

      , There is , however , one point , the seeking after mercenary marriages , which is fairly open to us , and on which Rachel thus

      comments , and we would remark in passing , * that her letter-at least bears unmistakeable internal evidence of being ; jErom a

      woman ' s pen , and is no fictitious expression of such opinions and observations as we may fairly believe no woman ever held or made .

      , She observes in continuation— - " But there is something to be said , . _^ . _iiuch not in is vindication to be the , accepted but in . extenuation appellation , of of mothers ' Belgravian who mothers consent , ' to if

      sell their daughters in marriage to the highest bidders . I say consentfor I do not ias it is so convenient to dp when mothers

      are to be , censured , the gnore _' Bel _^ gravian' fathers > on the contrary > as the

      * lords and masters / it is easy to know they are ~ at the root of this hideous evil . It cannot be overlooked that the settlements made

      oil ,, daughters are always computed hy the prospective provision

      wliich they are to get by marriage , as those of younger sons are

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/50/