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EWJ-1863-04-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Rye and the respectable young women under her charge at the conduct of some of these forty outsiders. We saw them loitering about when we went on board to say farewell, at Gravesend, and regretted their appearance at the time to Miss Rye.—B. R. P.]
December 12, 1862.
DEAR S—,
We are on land once more, after a safe b... | 1 | 2,923 | 918 | 3,841 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | finishing my letter, so that I might be able to send as late an account of us as possible. On Wednesday last we all went to the Regatta with Mr. and Mrs. B—. It was the 10th of this month (December), the great day throughout the year, the day when Queensland obtained the importance of being a separate colony. We enjoye... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,989 | 7,707 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and Mr. H—— is kindly sending it when we are ready to receive it; and he actually wrote me a kind note this morning, asking me what household matters we stood in need of. His sister has promised us some mattresses and mosquito curtains, so that we shall manage beautifully. I wish you were sitting by me at this moment, ... | 1 | 3,755 | 703 | 4,458 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | L___ has nearly obtained a situation of £100 per annum, as resident governness or companion to a lady at Ipswich, a town about forty miles from Brisbane; we are going to see the lady to-morrow, and then the matter will be decided. Her duties will be to teach Mrs. ____ French and music, and help her to take care of one ... | 1 | 4,203 | 280 | 4,483 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tell them we constantly think and speak of them. Give our love, too, to all our relations and to Mrs. H———. I wish she were here, I am sure she would succeed; B———, too. We feel quite at home in Brisbane, know all the principal streets, and have so many kind friends. It is not unusual to see a carriage-and-four at our ... | 1 | 3,949 | 245 | 4,194 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | PART II.
A GALLERY carried over the street on arches, and forming within an elegant hall of windows, the row of them on each side being only divided from each other by polished white Corinthian pilasters, while the floor is of mosaic and the roof white and gold, relieved by delicate lines of pale blue, unites the Old ... | 1 | 3,949 | 381 | 4,330 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
XVIII.—A STROLL THROUGH BERLIN. | 1 | 3,949 | 15 | 3,964 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | As regards the Museum itself, the most remarkable part of the building is its foundation, the site chosen on account of its being so conveniently situated just behind the Old Museum, having up till 1841 been the channel of a part of the river, the course of which had therefore to be diverted, and its muddy bed made fir... | 1 | 4,075 | 438 | 4,513 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Crossing the opposite Schloss-bridge, the wide Platz immediately on the other side, with its series of grand edifices, recalls our Parliament Street with its congregated Government offices, for here, clustered together on each side, nothing is to be seen but palaces and public buildings. First appears the massive Roy... | 1 | 3,949 | 210 | 4,159 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | pushed aside in silent discomfiture to make way for the triumphant din of looms and spinning-jennies. Next to this, and peering from the dusky covert of a surrounding grove of trees, stands in low-browed Doric solidity the New Royal Guard-house, neighboured by the extensive University, with its retiring facade and adva... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,303 | 7,021 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 52 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | prides the Champs Elysées, so the Linden Promenade finds a fitting end in the grand Brandenburger Thor, built, at the cost of half a million of thalers, in imitation of the Propyleum at Athens; five entrances, divided by rows of columns, forming a middle way reserved for royalty alone, two roads for carriages, and two ... | 1 | 2,923 | 621 | 3,544 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of the Linden Promenade lies the Friedrichs-stadt, one of the more modern quarters of the city, denoting itself as the special creation of Frederick the Great, by the rows of houses drawn up with soldier-like precision in stiff rank and file, forming the straightest of streets, all at exact right angles with each other... | 1 | 2,859 | 694 | 3,553 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | theatre closed in between two churches. Each erection stands quite detached and undivided from the free space around it by railing or enclosure of any kind; the large handsome theatre built in the Greek style, and with a broad flight of steps leading up to its lofty Ionic pillared portico, occupying the centre of the m... | 1 | 4,075 | 402 | 4,477 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In one of these old streets near the river, tradition preserves the remembrance of a domestic tragedy, similar, except in its sad conclusion, to the well-known dramatic story of the Maid and the Magpie. In the reign of Frederick William I. the offence of stealing in dwelling-houses had become so prevalent that the king... | 1 | 4,075 | 246 | 4,321 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | minister, however unwilling to turn his own house into a place of execution, had no resource but to give the fatal order, a wooden scaffold with a single arm was erected, and the handsome but unfortunate housemaid suffered the cruel penalty, in the presence of a pitying crowd, who only dispersed to make way for others,... | 1 | 3,883 | 525 | 4,408 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Spree is reached again, but time would fail to wander along its bank, and mark where, at this plebeian end of the city, the dyers and bleachers have established themselves in curious style, not only beside, but upon the stream, in little wooden erections, similar on a small scale to those of the Parisian washerwome... | 1 | 4,075 | 205 | 4,280 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | course of lessons. Only in nearing again the day's starting point in the most ancient quarter, the original city of Berlin, now called the König's-stadt, a moment must be spared for the chief relic of antiquity which the Berlin of to-day retains, sole waif from legendary ages which has been borne upon the waves of time... | 1 | 4,075 | 345 | 4,420 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But rarely indeed does any object occur here to carry the mind back into the far-gone past, for no time-worn piles of ancient architecture, no venerable cathedrals, no grim old fortresses, or hoary halls of justice appear, as in most large cities which reckon their genealogy by centuries, to attest that for ages past a... | 1 | 4,075 | 344 | 4,419 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to the thoroughfare, so that an extensive frontage, with long rows of windows, seldom less than five or six, and often twice that number, intervenes between far apart street-doors. Throughout the city there are trottoirs beside the roadway, but with only a narrow strip of flat flagstone running down the centre, the res... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,391 | 7,109 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | displaying in their windows the waxen figure of an old bald head, instead of as with us, doing their best to set forth youth and beauty; adorned with "luxuriant hair and whiskers," though this may possibly be intended as a courtly compliment to elderly royalty; but the absence of female effigies indicates, at least to ... | 1 | 4,075 | 229 | 4,304 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Within a few years a factory has been in operation in one of the manufacturing towns of New England, in which the American idea of making watches by machinery has been developed into practical utility. Nearly a third of the operatives are women, and the proportion gradually increases.
To visit the interesting workshop... | 1 | 4,075 | 311 | 4,386 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XIX.--WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA.
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EWJ-1863-04-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | usually made in different places, and in some distant city or country are brought together, and the mechanism fitted by measurement and put in motion by the finisher, whose eye and hand must be wonderfully steady to compete with machinery, which works with the exactness of the ten thousandth part of an inch. So slight ... | 1 | 4,075 | 329 | 4,404 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is not possible or needful here to give a methodical detail of the one hundred and twenty parts of the watch, each requiring separate manufacture and adjustment. In one room are stamps- and dies with which the different parts are cut out from brass; in another they are reduced to the required size and form; one mach... | 1 | 4,075 | 340 | 4,415 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the different parts are formed, they are examined in the finishing room, and those found to be perfect are hardened, cleaned and polished. Even the polishing is done by machinery. The jewelling is a very nice and important part of the work; to avoid wear from friction the pivions are set in precious stones of extreme h... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,319 | 7,037 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
L. H. | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1862. Edited by George W. Hastings. London: Parker, Son, and Bourn.
The Association for the Promotion of Social Science, and the nature of its transactions, are, or at least may be, well known to our readers. This is the sixth bulky volume, ... | 1 | 2,987 | 585 | 3,572 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 133 )
XX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
— | 1 | 3,949 | 18 | 3,967 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | but it is easier to find a blot than to decipher a whole manuscript, and these are only the blots upon a record of fair and even noble effort.
To the uninitiated, the scene at Guildhall last summer presented considerable confusion, as busy members crossed in search of something going on in a particular department, or ... | 1 | 2,923 | 607 | 3,530 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | been swept away by the indignant voice of public opinion." The space of the section is chiefly occupied with practical questions of Law Reform, such as the reduction of the cost of Private Bill Legislation, and simplifying its tedious and unsatisfactory procedure so as to save the time now spent upon it by the Legislat... | 1 | 2,923 | 593 | 3,516 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In Education, the question of the day was the Revised Code. | 1 | 3,949 | 14 | 3,963 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | To enter on the discussion of this subject here would be impossible, but we cannot avoid remarking that the best of the writing and the best of the argument is on the side of the opponents of the new code. Mr. Fitch's paper on "Educational Results and the mode of testing them" shows up the shallowness of the cry "Pay f... | 1 | 3,947 | 522 | 4,469 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Department of Punishment and Reformation is more than half devoted to the question of Convict Discipline. The heads of the English and Irish Systems, Sir Joshua Jebb and Sir Walter Crofton, come forward in defence of their respective modes of operation,—both at least professing the same principle, that of reducing ... | 1 | 4,075 | 185 | 4,260 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | light, shows the early stage at which the rival systems diverge, in spite of outward semblance, and the entire difference at which they arrive,—when the English prison liberates a convict with a ticket of leave, to go where he pleases, and to do as he pleases, because, for a period of time, shorter than his sentence, h... | 1 | 2,859 | 604 | 3,463 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL. XI.
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EWJ-1863-04-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | important questions brought before the Association, and devotes himself constantly to their advancement. We can only mention the Sixth Department—that of Trade and International Law—as the one to which foreign contributions naturally flow, and as containing interesting discussions on Belligerent Rights and Contraband o... | 1 | 4,075 | 241 | 4,316 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The medical profession is appealed to in a pamphlet* on some of the medicinal contributions from the Colonies to the International Exhibition, embodying the results at present ascertained, of an inquiry undertaken at the suggestion of Miss Burdett Coutts. Mr. Hunter says in his preface:—“To the truly philanthropic and ... | 1 | 4,075 | 338 | 4,413 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | BOOKS OF THE MONTH. | 1 | 4,075 | 8 | 4,083 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | who, as consul of the colonies contributing the medicines here reported upon, was most desirous that I should publish at once the result. Of some of these medicines, the results have been of a negative character; some are of equal value, but not superior, to those we are accustomed to use, and of which an ample supply ... | 1 | 2,987 | 653 | 3,640 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | †Labourers' Cottages in the Agricultural Districts of England Price 1s. London : Jarrold. | 1 | 4,075 | 25 | 4,100 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | able, resorts to the public-house. No doubt it is depressing and annoying to come in after a hard day's work, to an uncomfortable, disorderly house. But it should be remembered that the wife's hard day's work has been done in the midst of this unwholesome, depressing atmosphere, the direct influence of which is to make... | 1 | 2,859 | 667 | 3,526 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | on the northern side of London, and are at too great a distance to be available for the treatment of residents in even the nearest parts of the city, on the Surrey side of the river.
Dr. Ladd gives a case of fatal injury incurred by an effort to go from Lambeth to the Brompton Hospital for relief; and mentions that he... | 1 | 3,115 | 548 | 3,663 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | (As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.)
-- INFANT FEEDING.
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES,
In a recent number you did me the honour to insert a short letter of mine, on the subject of "Infant Mortality," ... | 1 | 3,115 | 605 | 3,720 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XXI.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 9 | 4,084 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tions, the larger the exhibition-room and the better its situation will be. I believe that this exhibition will prove eminently useful in encouraging industrious women to exert their skill, and to become first-rate artificers in various arts and trades, where they are now employed in only the least skilled and worst pa... | 1 | 4,075 | 400 | 4,475 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.
FREN LABOUR COTTON.—Our attention has recently been called to certain facts in relation to this subject of an interesting and important character.
It appears that very superior cotton has been grown and is now growing in Jamaica (of which we have seen samples), capable of being spun into the fi... | 1 | 4,075 | 291 | 4,366 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXII.—PASSING EVENTS.
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EWJ-1863-04-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | (equal to Sea-Island) flourishes to such a degree that the trees are actually borne down by the weight of the cotton now upon them. Why should not the women of England, one and all, resolve, now cotton may be obtained, as good and as cheap, by means of free labour in our own colonies as it has heretofore been obtained ... | 1 | 4,139 | 543 | 4,682 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | On Saturday, March 7th, the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, accompanied by her parents and suite, made a public entry into London, passing from the Bricklayers' Arms Station to Paddington, amidst the eager welcome and hearty good wishes of the dense multitudes who lined her route.
On Tuesday, March 10th, the marriage o... | 1 | 4,075 | 138 | 4,213 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | PUBLIC AND POLITICAL. | 1 | 4,075 | 7 | 4,082 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_72 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | JOURNAL.
VOL. IX.—AUGUST, 1862.
XLIX.—MARCH. L.—APRIL. LI.—MAY. LII.—JUNE. LIII.—JULY. LIV.—AUGUST. | 1 | 4,075 | 57 | 4,132 | B0C1R2 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_1 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL COMPANY, LIMITED,
At their Office, 19, Langham Place, Regent Street, W.;
AND FOR THE COMPANY BY W. KENT & Co., (Late Piper, Stephenson, & Spence,) Paternoster Row. | 1 | 4,203 | 72 | 4,275 | B0C1R4 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_1 |
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FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | no. I.—Female Physicians. By Samuel Gregory, A.M., M.D., Boston, U.S.
II.—Unpainted Pictures from an Artist's Diary. By Anna Mary Howitt Watts, Author of " An Art Student in Munich"
III.—Endowed Schools, their Uses and Short-comings. By Jessie Boucherett
IV.—La Pauvre Fille. By Soumet. Poem
V.—Refuge. A Poem by Lou... | 1 | 4,075 | 196 | 4,271 | B0C1R2 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_3 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | XIV.—Annals of Needlewomen. Chap. I. By Ellen Barlee
XV.—Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. Part I.
XVI.—L'Alceste de Gluck à l'Opéra
XVII.—Drowned. Poem
XVIII.—Longings. By John G. Fleet. Poem
XIX.—Unpainted Pictures from an Artist's Diary. By Anna Mary Howitt Watts, Author of « An Art Student in Munich »
XX.—Trainin... | 1 | 4,075 | 174 | 4,249 | B0C1R4 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_3 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 6 | XXVII.—Science for Women XXVIII.—Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. Part II. XXIX.—Lives for Leaves XXX.—Work. Poem XXXI.—Un Beau Jour. Poem XXXII.—The Factory Homes' Association XXXIII.—A Physician's Memoranda. By a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians XXXIV.—Our Emigrant. By Ellen Barlee XXXV.—The Revised Code XXXVI.... | 1 | 4,075 | 152 | 4,227 | B0C1R6 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_3 |
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The following is an extract from the Newcastle Courant of the 14th April, 1814.
"On Wednesday evening, about half-past nine o'clock, a young man named William Thompson, aged 19 years, was found dead in a field near the village of Throckley, in the county of Northumberland. He had been employed in the coal-p... | 1 | 4,075 | 175 | 4,250 | B0C1R3 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_3 |
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FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | NO. XL.I.—Annals of Needlewomen. By Ellen Barlee XLII.—Lady Hester Stanhope. Part I. XLIII.—Lives for Leaves XLIV.—A June Morning {Poems by Walter Thornbury XLV.—Tadium Vite XLVI.—Our Shadow. A Poem by Isa Craig XLVII.—"Though this be Madness, yet there's Method in it." By Bessie R. Parkes XLVIII.—An Irish Newgate "in ... | 1 | 3,583 | 208 | 3,791 | B0C1R1 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_4 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LVIII.—"Though this be Madness, yet there's Method in it." Part II. LIX.—Lady Hester Stanhope. Part II. LX.—The Cultivation of Female Industry in Ireland. By Mrs. Meredith LXI.—A Vision. A Poem by Sophie May Eckley LXII.—German Literature. No. III. LXIII.—On the Education of Pauper Girls. By Mary Carpenter LXIV.—Annals... | 1 | 3,583 | 211 | 3,794 | B0C1R3 | FEWJ-1862-03-01_page_4 |
FEWJ-1862-03-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | LXXI.—The Official Employment of Women in Works of Charity. By the Rev. J. S. Howson, D.D.
LXXII.—Madame de Staël
LXXIII.—Report of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
LXXIV.—Charity. A Poem by A.E.G.
LXXV.—Our Fountain. By E. M. Elliot
LXXVI.—Annals of Needlewomen. By Ellen Barlee
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 1 | THE
A NEWSPAPER
FOR THE
PEOPLE.
VOL. I.—NO. 1.
LONDON,
JANUARY 1, 1835.
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THE EDITORIAL.
The first number of our paper is issued under circumstances of peculiar difficulty. The press has been in operation but a few days, and the type is not yet set up. The paper is, therefore, necessarily small,... | 1 | 3,703 | 424 | 4,127 | B1C0R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 3 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY. | 1 | 3,703 | 9 | 3,712 | B2C0R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 4 | Vol. XII. February 1, 1864. No. 72. | 1 | 3,703 | 20 | 3,723 | B2C0R4 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 5 | LXVI.—A REVIEW OF THE LAST SIX YEARS.
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 6 | Six years have now elapsed since the “English Woman’s Journal” was started, and this number for February, 1864, being the last of the twelfth volume, I have thought that it might be useful to say a few words to our readers regarding the motives which led to its commencement, and the reasons which have induced those who... | 1 | 3,703 | 225 | 3,928 | B2C0R6 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 7 | - Ten years ago, although there was an earnest and active group of people, deeply interested in all that relates to female education and industry, and to the reform of the laws affecting the property of married women, and though efforts were being made in many directions for the bettering of the condition of the mass o... | 1 | 3,703 | 198 | 3,901 | B2C0R7 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,703 | 11 | 3,714 | B2C0R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 8 | VOL. XII. FEBRUARY.
LXVI.—A REVIEW OF
Six years have now elapsed since "Journal" was started, and this being the last of the twelfth might be useful to say a few words on the motives which led to its commencement, and have induced those who started it in one particular way. Number (and very naturally) asked by some o... | 2 | 2,876 | 313 | 3,189 | B2C1R8 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 9 | VOL. XII. | 1 | 973 | 5 | 978 | B2C1R9 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | contact with the minds of several eminent professors of the day. The whole standard of female education in regard to history, the dead and living languages, mathematics, and musical science was changed. The pupils were made to understand what is knowledge and what is not, and to appreciate as well as to acquire.
In li... | 1 | 4,075 | 331 | 4,406 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The department of intellectual activity in which she naturally took most interest was that of the artist; and a group of young women, who pursued art in one or other of its various branches, were among her constant visitors during her sojourns in London. It was, however, to all the problems connected with the care of t... | 1 | 4,075 | 237 | 4,312 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to the consideration of the medical question. This letter is one of the most remarkable productions of Mrs. Jameson's pen. It is characterized by a simplicity and dignity which reveal the aged and experienced woman, willing to come forward and stake her well-won reputation for the sake of those younger than herself; it... | 1 | 2,923 | 533 | 3,456 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It was some six months later, in October, 1856, that a stray | 1 | 4,075 | 19 | 4,094 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | number of a periodical, professing to be edited by ladies, caught my eye in the window of a small shop in Edinburgh. On making some enquiries at the office, I found it to be a paper of a very harmless but very inefficient sort, full of tales, petty, and occasionally articles on charities. The proprietor, however, wishe... | 1 | 3,243 | 541 | 3,784 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It now needs to be considered in what relation this journal could be expected to stand to the rest of the periodical press. Had it from the first any hope, any expectation, any wish to come forward in the same field with the able monthlies, which contained the best writing of the day? To this question an emphatic no mu... | 1 | 4,203 | 83 | 4,286 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | been perfectly hopeless and absurd, and indeed self-destructive, for a subject cannot be at once popular and unpopular, rich and poor, clothed in purple and fine linen, and undergoing incessant fear of a social martyrdom. If it had been wished to start a brilliant and successful magazine, some eminent publisher should ... | 1 | 3,051 | 535 | 3,586 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It was now, in the winter of 1859—60, that the group of works, which have since been frequently reviewed by the press, took their rise—all of them in a certain way linked to Miss | 1 | 3,703 | 48 | 3,751 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Boucherett's society, except the Victoria Press, which Miss Faithfull undertook, on a separate basis, in connection with a gentleman, who had for many years desired to see women employed in printing. At the same time the Law-copying Office was started by the society, and Miss Rye installed as manager; and Miss Bouchere... | 1 | 2,859 | 545 | 3,404 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | is also one of its oldest contributors, under the signature of “Asterisk,” and “E.” Her first connection with the office arose more than six years ago, when she actively interested herself in the setting aside of one of the great London swimming baths for the use of ladies on one day of the week. A recent shipwreck had... | 1 | 3,435 | 474 | 3,909 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This is the more imperative, because, in any purely secular work, it is next to impossible to secure those peculiar benefits which spring from thorough organization, by which the weak are sustained, the idle stimulated, the unsteady held in check. Any twenty people will obey a common religious authority, and they will ... | 1 | 3,949 | 122 | 4,071 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in question, which is carried on, neither by the direct authority of a religious body, nor by the principle of pecuniary contracts; it is next to impossible to combine a number of people in any reasonably permanent or satisfactory manner. There is a want of organic coherence in the elements of human character; and this... | 1 | 3,563 | 481 | 4,044 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Biographies of noted characters abound in our introspective age, and the tribute of a memoir is readily paid to the shades of hundreds of men and women who have acquired a reputation, more or less solid, for literary, scientific, political, religious, or philanthropic eminence. But there is one class of persons, consis... | 1 | 4,203 | 93 | 4,296 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXVII.—WOMEN AND CO-OPERATION.
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | whose only claim to immortalization consists in their lives having been a practical success, and their implied possession of the qualities necessary to escape failure. Lives of similar women are not written, for the simple reason that such women do not exist. We have “Biographies of good Women,” in plenty, “Beautiful L... | 1 | 3,949 | 326 | 4,275 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Men rise in trade either by the profitable investment of a small capital, or by the possession of personal qualities necessary to their wealthier employers, but both of these courses are practically closed against female enterprise. The traditions, what we once heard a chemist call the etiquette of trade, exclude women... | 1 | 3,949 | 325 | 4,274 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The agency by which they have accomplished this, is Co-operation, in its technical sense; but, we fear, that those for whom Co-operation could do most, are those least acquainted with its nature and history. The idea of reconciling the claims of capital and labor, or, at least, of protecting the latter from monopolists... | 1 | 2,859 | 584 | 3,443 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | hard-working women, yet to derive the utmost practical benefit from its working, they must take its application into their own hands. This they will not do until a general knowledge of the principles of Co-operation is far more common amongst them than at present, and for this they must look to their better educated an... | 1 | 3,115 | 603 | 3,718 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "With regard to Co-operative associations for production, the case is different. The leading principle of these is a recognition of the claims of labor to share profits, and such a prospect may well be attractive to women who have failed hitherto to obtain. | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | even the more modest desideratum of a fair day's wages for fair day's work. There are many reasons to account for the helplessness of workwomen as against their employers, of which the chief, are, the ruinous competition amongst themselves, traceable to the limited number of occupations open to them and their total wan... | 1 | 2,923 | 608 | 3,531 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A glance at the history of the workmen's associations now | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | existing will show how such enterprises should be begun, and what dangers threaten them as they approach success. Such societies (associations ouvrières), were first established in France, and one, of jewellers, founded in 1884, is still flourishing; the members have accumulated a capital, and make fair profits which a... | 1 | 3,051 | 580 | 3,631 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - Such are a few details concerning the rise and progress of the most successful and most meritorious of Co-operative associations for general trade. They suggest three points in particular, | 1 | 4,075 | 37 | 4,112 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 14 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | external persons and circumstances. On the first of these heads little need be said; if the virtues of courage, self-denial, public spirit, and intelligence, are rare amongst scantily-educated women, they are, we will hope, not more so than amongst men similarly circumstanced; and, at any rate, no better school for the... | 1 | 2,923 | 623 | 3,546 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_14 |
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