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    VICTORIA PRESS. 121

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    XVIII.—VICTOBIA PRESS.

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    W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...

    ours , well and carefully trained in all those functions of administrative benevolencewhich are in fact but a development of household

    qualities ; the larger , , the more generous , and equally distinctive part of woman ' s work in the world .

    Bessie _Raynee Pakkes .

    Victoria Press. 121

    VICTORIA PRESS . 121

    Xviii.—Victobia Press.

    XVIII . —VICTOBIA PRESS . A PAPER HEAD AT THE GXASGOTV _MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION POR THE PROMOTION OP SOCIAL SCIENCE , 1860 .

    » "When We Remember The Impetus Given To...

    » "When we remember the impetus given to the question of female employment by the discussion which took place at the meeting of

    this Association , at Bradford , last year , it seems but natural to suppose that one of the practical results of that discussion Trill be a

    matter of great interest to the present audience , on which account I venture to bring before your notice the origin and progress of

    the Victoria Press . It has often been urged against this Association that it does

    £ i nothing but talk ; " but those who fail to see the connexion existing between the promotion of social science and the development of

    that science in spheres of practical exertion , must acknowledge that if all discussions led to as much action as followed that which took

    place upon the employment of women , the accusation would fall to the ground . A thorough ventilation of the question of the

    necessity for extending the field of woman's employment , was at that time imperatively needed . The April number of the Edinburgh

    Revieiv for 1859 had contained a fuller account of the actual state of female industry in this country than perhaps had ever been

    previously brought before the notice of the public . The question had begun to weigh upon thoughtful mindsand even to force itself upon

    unwilling ones , and the notion that the , destitution of women was a rare and exceptional phenomenonwas swept awayas the Times

    observed , when Miss Parkes , addressing , this Association , at Bradford , did not hesitate to ask whether there was a single man in the

    company who had not , at that moment , among his own connexions , an instance of the distress to which her paper referred . The discussion

    which followed operated in a most beneficial manner ; it forced the public to put prejudice asideand to test the theory hitherto so

    jealously maintained , that women , were , as a general rule , supported in comfort and independence by their male relatives . The press

    then took up the question , and , with but few exceptions , dealt by it with a zeal and honesty which aided considerably in the partial

    solution of a problem in which is bound up so much of the welfare and happiness of English homes during this and future generations .

    One by one the arguments for and against female employment ,

    VOL . VI . I

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/49/