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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "At length, when it was too evident to me that the measure of her days was well nigh told, I determined to take upon myself the responsibility of breaking through this unnatural restraint, and prayed for strength to do so in a fitting time and manner, but it was a hard struggle and often my heart failed. One night, how... | 1 | 4,203 | 114 | 4,317 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | like me to read to her; and on her assenting, selected the ninetieth, and then the twenty-third psalms. When I came to the words, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death," I paused, a mist came before my eyes, and a choking sensation rose in my throat, but God was with me then! Yes, in that dim room, i... | 1 | 4,075 | 376 | 4,451 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "And I promised. On my knees before her, my hands clasped in hers, my eyes uplifted to Heaven, I vowed to maintain that sacred trust, to fulfil her dying injunctions: after which, as if relieved from a great weight, she reverted, with a serenity I had scarcely hoped to witness, to the separation she had so long foresee... | 1 | 4,075 | 342 | 4,417 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | disciplining to self-restraint and self-forgetfulness the character which had as yet known no control. But I could not gainsay my mother's will, and Alice, seeing her daily lifted to the sofa, constantly encouraged by her assurance that she felt no pain, and could not be much worse since she was not obliged to keep her... | 1 | 3,947 | 457 | 4,404 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The reason for our remaining so long in Bath, where, owing to the constant illness and mourning in the family, we were little known, was that I might better superintend my sister's education, as I would not trust her in a boarding school, though urged to leave her at one in England, and return to stay with some of our... | 1 | 3,825 | 192 | 4,017 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | my darling on the eye. A violent inflammation, with the agonising dread of blindness supervening, was the result. For several days I was in the most miserable suspense, but gradually the surgeons gave me the hope, ere long changed into the assurance, that not only was her sight unimpaired but that no disfigurement woul... | 1 | 3,115 | 616 | 3,731 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "But I had been so lonely, my youth so darkened; his memory had always been to me something so inexpressibly precious and beloved; the thought of him had so encouraged me through all I suffered,—that to find him now returned, nobler than even my fancy | 1 | 4,203 | 55 | 4,258 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | had poutrayed, true and unchanged, returned to seek me as his wife, never, never more to part, oh! it was such wild delicious happiness that my heart throbbed, my brain reeled, and it was luxury at last to weep upon his breast, and assure myself it was no dream. I know not how long we talked, but when he went away, I r... | 1 | 4,011 | 475 | 4,486 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - "That day, after he left me, I took courage, and gently and lovingly spoke of what had taken place to Alice. She was very much distressed at first, and accused me of forsaking her, and being false to my trust—that was her usual weapon in all her little quarrels with me—and she persisted she would not see him, no, not... | 1 | 4,075 | 219 | 4,294 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | then breaking into tears. It wrung my heart to hear her cry, and I knew besides how dangerous, in the still weak state of her eyes, any prolonged weeping might prove.
"Where is my little cousin," he said, in his rich persuasive voice, "my sister soon?" But Alice only answered by her sobs.
"Will you not give me your h... | 1 | 3,703 | 266 | 3,969 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "For the three or four weeks that followed, scarce a shadow crossed my happiness. Alice, reconciled to the presence of Eustace, no longer complained of his engrossing too much of my attention; indeed to prevent her being much alone, I generally contrived that almost all the time he passed at our house we should spend t... | 1 | 3,703 | 371 | 4,074 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | faillery on any deviation from the calm grave deportment she had learned to look upon as inseparable from her elder sister and preceptress.
"I know he often thought me unaccountable and capricious for suddenly breaking off interviews which he would say had been his dream for years to realise, because the charge I ever... | 1 | 3,243 | 561 | 3,804 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued.) | 1 | 3,703 | 5 | 3,708 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Even before the foot is set on the soil of France, one becomes aware of the immense difference in manners and customs between the two sides of the Channel, for as soon as the steamer runs alongside the pier, it is invaded by a horde of fish-women dressed in their distinguishing costume, white caps, gold earrings, blue ... | 1 | 3,115 | 593 | 3,708 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | LL.—A STROLL THROUGH BOULOGNE. | 1 | 3,825 | 14 | 3,839 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | eyes and smart little cap deceive one into a favorable opinion. All round the shop sit young girls working away with might and main at ladies' shoes and boots, in different stages of progress. Probably there is a man belonging to the establishment to fasten on the soles, for one can hardly fancy that such little finger... | 1 | 2,859 | 629 | 3,488 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for their superiority in size, strength, and good looks. It is the men's business to catch the fish, the women's to sell it, and all the money thus obtained they retain in their possession for household purposes, excepting _deux sous pour boire_ a day, which it would be considered stingy in a wife to deny to her lord a... | 1 | 4,075 | 450 | 4,525 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Returning into the more cheerful lower town, we encounter a lady riding demurely along on a sober-minded donkey. Suddenly a swarm of street boys rush out upon her, and beset her peaceful steed with numberless blows, to her great discomposure, as the poor animal presently goes off at full gallop to avoid them, whereupon... | 1 | 4,075 | 289 | 4,364 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | defend, and may perhaps in some degree account for the dreadful acts of savageness said to be perpetrated at every fresh revolution in the streets of Paris.
As we descended the Grande Rue, and looked in at the shop windows and up at the names over the doors, we were struck by the number of women who both serve in the ... | 1 | 3,499 | 470 | 3,969 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A Letter to Lord John Russell. By Mrs. Jameson.
We have hesitated in what way best to bring forward our feelings and opinions regarding this letter, which we consider by many degrees the most important contribution to the literature of our particular social question which has appeared since this Journal first took its... | 1 | 4,075 | 66 | 4,141 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
* | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It does not claim attention as a new and separate work, being in fact prefatory to a new edition of the two lectures on “Sisters of Charity,” and “The Communication of Labor,” delivered to a large circle of private friends, and afterwards widely circulated in a printed form.
Under this form it has, we fear, less chanc... | 1 | 3,563 | 533 | 4,096 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “This argument of the distinct claims of the two sexes without mutual discord, of their necessary communion in all social work without disturbance of the natural domestic relations, I have endeavoured to illustrate in the two Lectures (or Essays) which follow. They were first published in 1855 and 1856. The degree of a... | 1 | 4,075 | 203 | 4,278 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | opinion has indeed been so rapid, even within the last three or four years, that many suggestions, which in these pages were put forth hesitatingly because in opposition to established prejudices, are no longer in danger of being overborne by such prejudices; the tide of public feeling is flowing with them, not against... | 1 | 3,499 | 714 | 4,213 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " No injured wives or suffering children are ever benefited by an appeal to the public,"—such is the flat recently pronounced by an influential periodical. The absolute tone of this assertion, as if it were some indisputable truth, strikes into silent acquiescence a timid unreflecting mind: but is this true? Your Lords... | 1 | 4,203 | 183 | 4,386 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | cannot recall the past: but is it not to the awakening of the 'public', conscience by reiterated appeals against such individual cases of irreparable wrong, that we owe the protection of many women, the salvation of many children?"
On Social Separation and Satires on Women, read what follows: the second portion of the... | 1 | 3,371 | 720 | 4,091 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - "I am speaking only of the general impressions I brought away from America and from Italy, and do not presume to judge either country, only I should be sorry to see the same causes prevail and produce the same effects in this England of ours. The best safeguard against ruffianism, as against profligacy, lies in the t... | 1 | 4,203 | 153 | 4,356 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | boards, literary and scientific societies so tenaciously exclude women, except when tolerated as an occasional and merely ornamental element? Men may say—they do say—What prevents you women from having charitable, literary, scientific societies and academies of your own? But this is precisely the state of things which ... | 1 | 3,949 | 360 | 4,309 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ' Young men grow up from their school and college days in total ignorance of the true condition of woman, and the education which has been given to her. With a love tender, reverent, and protective towards a good mother, with an affectionate yet somewhat exacting and patronising feeling towards a good sister, (if they ... | 1 | 3,949 | 550 | 4,499 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | out good in any path but that which obsolete custom has prescribed to her is positively refused. If her success in any such path be undeniable, it is as known in an insidently complimentary style as an exceptional case; while the mistakes or failures of certain women are singled out as a theme of the bitterest ridicule... | 1 | 2,923 | 936 | 3,859 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The second part of the letter treats of what English women require. | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 'If come now to another part of this much-vexed 'woman question.' We are asked what privileges, what advantages can educated English women require which they do not already possess? and since we admit that we cannot do without man's help, in what form is that help to be given?
'I have, in the following Essays, endeavo... | 1 | 2,859 | 816 | 3,675 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and duly authorised, might raise the standard of female education all over the country. I do not understand why the same kind of authorised interest might not be taken in the larger and higher colleges for girls, which, we find extended by the Universities to the large academies and colleges for boys. The schoolmasters... | 1 | 3,051 | 764 | 3,815 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * * I say nothing of their merits, for that has nothing to do with the question. Of the thirty-six painters, who were the original academicians, about twelve are still remembered. Of the three ladies, one was Angelica Kauffmann, also still remem- bered, a sort of female West in general feebleness of design, but far mor... | 1 | 3,703 | 93 | 3,796 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the advantages from the present outlook is all that women ask, as a recognition of the principle of justice and equality, but they accept for the present the excuse of poverty. They trust that the future prosperity of the Academy will remove this cause, that in the designs for the new building some not inadequate space... | 1 | 2,859 | 857 | 3,716 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | apothecary? I often think that men who can be tenderly considerate to refined ladies in drawing-rooms, are under the impression that the coarsely-fed and coarsely-dressed laboring women have not the natural feelings of their sex; but those who have visited among the poor, understand the deep dislike they feel to place ... | 1 | 3,703 | 457 | 4,160 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Femmes Arabes avant et depuis l’Islamisme. Par M. le Docteur Perron, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Directeur du Collège Impérial Arabe-Français, Ancien Directeur de l’Ecole de Médecine d’Egypte, Membre de la Société Asiatique de Paris, de la Société Historique Algérienne, etc. Paris : Librairie Nouvelle, Boulevard ... | 1 | 3,703 | 288 | 3,991 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | FOREIGN LITERATURE.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | wife were nearly equal in the state, the family, and the tribe. The men consulted them, and, as in the old Germanic tribes, they were supposed to be often inspired. The Jewish prophetess, Deborah, may be considered as a type of this class. In the time of war they were very active, exciting the courage of the men by the... | 1 | 3,243 | 618 | 3,861 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | At the present time, among the Arabs of Algeria, there are some who have adopted French civilization, and are as proficient as many French ladies, in reading, writing, and embroidery. We know one who is teacher in Madame Luce’s school, in the town of Algiers, and whose acquirements are considerable. Perhaps among the p... | 1 | 3,703 | 96 | 3,799 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | make use of the pen Madame Luce has put into their hands; some day a history of an Arab woman in French by Nifissa or Fatima, may come forth from the press of Algiers and astonish us by its originality and poetry. It is certain that this first school for Moorish, Arab, and negro girls, will produce some very remarkable... | 1 | 4,075 | 312 | 4,387 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | [As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.]
-- To the Editor of the English Woman’s Journal.
MADAM,
A long letter appeared in your last “Open Council,” entitled “A few words for poor young girls,” and I wish to say a few words in re... | 1 | 4,075 | 240 | 4,315 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LIII.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | morbid women summon their small remaining strength to prostrate and bind every hopeful girl who has the misfortune to cross their path." Also, A. S. alludes to the way in which negroes call each other "nigger," and says, that "our way of going on is something similar, only infinitely more mischievous."
I confess I am ... | 1 | 4,011 | 604 | 4,615 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | So far as my individual daily experience is of any value, and judging of people and principles as they exist in the more limited circles of London, (which, however, ultimately give their tone to the rest of the kingdom,) nothing can exceed the tenderness and sympathy shown by older women to younger ones. Take any one o... | 1 | 4,075 | 252 | 4,327 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | For the honor of women let it not be said that they ever delight to cry down their younger sisters, and if there be any who are guilty of so doing, let them profit by example and amend quickly the error of their ways.
I remain, Madam, Yours obediently, A LONDONER. | 1 | 3,825 | 66 | 3,891 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVANTS.
MADAM,
I should have thought the very sensible article under this head, of March 1st, had answered and anticipated all questions as to "How far it is practicable in ordinary elementary (day) schools to train girls in industrial work, such as washing, general laundry work, cooking... | 1 | 3,691 | 644 | 4,335 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
... | 1 | 3,825 | 11 | 3,836 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | prepare for the reception and exercise of other knowledge and duties if they offer? I believe that special work requires special training, and special training special means. What these are we shall the sooner learn, the sooner we abandon the illusion of combination. I take it for granted that no instructive institutio... | 1 | 3,949 | 377 | 4,326 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | [ We have been requested to insert the following appeal in favor of the School belonging to the Ladies' Hibernian Society. ]
It will be gratifying to the friends of education amongst the readers of the English Woman's Journal (and we are intuitively assured that they are many) to hear a few particulars of the progress... | 1 | 3,949 | 341 | 4,290 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LADIES' HIBERNIAN SOCIETY. | 1 | 3,949 | 14 | 3,963 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and taken care of by its beneficent agencies, so that not one of these little ones perished while the pestilence, born of want, destroyed such multitudes of that unhappy and long neglected people. This fact is a glorious testimony to the energy of the female mind, which exerted itself for the rescue of so many helpless... | 1 | 3,703 | 393 | 4,096 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Or the war in Italy we have to record the steady progress of the French and Sardinian arms. The battle of Magenta on the 4th of June, was followed by the evacuation of Milan by the Austrian troops. The people of the town gave an enthusiastic welcome to the allies, and the King and Emperor attended mass at Milan Cathedr... | 1 | 3,703 | 302 | 4,005 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LIV.—PASSING EVENTS.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord John Russell as Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. We rejoice to see Mr. Sidney Herbert appointed Minister of War, knowing that he has been a devoted friend to Miss Nightingale in her work, and is likely to carry out as far as lies in his power all plans of reform which... | 1 | 3,949 | 574 | 4,523 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - Those of our readers, and we hope and believe they are many, who feel an interest in the different enterprises attempted to be carried on in connection with the English Woman's Journal, will be glad to hear that arrangements have been completed for opening the Ladies' Reading Room in the evening, for the benefit of t... | 1 | 3,949 | 400 | 4,349 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | home and 'hearth, husband and children; who may draw the curtains and close the door, and make their tea from a silver urn, while Charles or Henry reads to them from the last new novel.
We would not, however, for a moment limit the exclusive advantages of a Reading Room to those who have few luxuries at home. In all s... | 1 | 4,075 | 660 | 4,735 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Vol. II. February 1, 1859. No. 12.
LL.—COLLEGES FOR GIRLS.
"Last, my daughter begg'd a boon, A certain summer palace which I have Hard by your father's frontier: I said no, Yet being an easy man, gave it; and there All wild to found an University For maidens, on the spur she fled." *The Princess*.... | 1 | 3,051 | 486 | 3,537 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | that of the free imperial cities, by which they sent deputies to the German Diet, are also pertinent examples; and among ourselves, Chelsea and Dulwich Colleges.*
It is worth while to remark in passing, that the word 'Hospital' also originally bore a far more general meaning than it does at present, and that instead o... | 1 | 3,115 | 573 | 3,688 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | * Our readers will find in histories of Oxford and Cambridge, and in encyclopædic articles, ample information on the colleges of all ages. We have quoted freely without thinking it necessary to refer specially to obvious sources of knowledge. | 1 | 4,203 | 46 | 4,249 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_2 |
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COLLEGES FOR GIRLS. | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "universitas'" proper, that name having hitherto been used to describe various other corporations not of an educational character. This great teacher was Abelard, the lover of Heloise, the famous teacher, around whom it was estimated upwards of five thousand scholars were at one time assembled, of whom M. Guizot remark... | 1 | 3,435 | 476 | 3,911 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The foundations of our two great seats of learning lie buried amidst the obscurity of our early annals, and their rival claims to priority have proved the source of a voluminous discussion. Of the two, Cambridge appears to produce the better title, since the merit of restoring or probably of founding the university, is... | 1 | 4,075 | 84 | 4,159 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | in the chronicle of Hyde Abbey is said to have erected halls for the students, and chairs and seats for the doctors at his own charge. But of Oxford we are told that in all probability no regular system or corporate body for the purposes of learning existed there till the twelfth century, though ecclesiasticl schools a... | 1 | 2,987 | 681 | 3,668 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Still speaking of Oxford,—Exeter College found a considerable contributor in a Lady Shiers, and Queen Anne in like manner | 1 | 4,203 | 27 | 4,230 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_4 |
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COLLEGES FOR GIRLS. | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | benefitted Oriel. Queen's College was founded by Robert Eglesfield, confessor to Queen Philippa, and it was aided by her, by Henrietta Maria, and by two queens of the house of Hanover. Wadham College was founded by Nicholas Wadham and his wife Dorothy, "an eminent benefactor to several colleges in this university." Mr.... | 1 | 3,179 | 580 | 3,759 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Probably every reader of this journal is aware that within the last fifteen years certain seminaries have been established for the use of young women, commonly called Ladies' Colleges; the majority by some practical acquaintance with these institutions, in their own persons or those of young relatives; and dwellers in ... | 1 | 4,075 | 78 | 4,153 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in the newspapers regarding the terms both of time and money. Of these colleges, the earliest in foundation, and in all respects the best known and most amply supported is Queen's College, Harley Street, London, and we cannot do better than quote, as a sort of text to the report, the advertisement inserted in the "Athe... | 1 | 3,435 | 497 | 3,932 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "At the beginning of the undertaking," Sir John Forbes goes on to state, "it was proposed to educate governesses, making the college in fact a normal school of a high class; and in its earlier years it maintained relations of intimacy and alliance with that admirable institution, which, taking another province of work ... | 1 | 4,075 | 109 | 4,184 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | connection was “harmoniously dissolved.” The Harley Street College now acquired permanent standing; the Queen had allowed it to be called by her name, and had founded, in it a free scholarship during her life. The Bishop of London manifested his “interest in the institution, and his confidence in the principles on whic... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,312 | 7,030 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | CLASS OF PUPILS. Mich. Term. Lent Term. Easter Term. 1. Scholars. 5 9 7 9 7 8 2. Free Pupils from G. B. I. 14 14 13 14 14 14 3. Other Free Pupils. 14 6 5 3 4 2 4. Compounders 21 22 17 23 16 25 5. Non-Compounders 86 94 105 105 116 106 6. Preparatory Class 38 42 59 49 54 56
Totals 168 187 206 203 211 211
We can best un... | 1 | 2,859 | 756 | 3,615 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Michelmas term begins Oct. 4th, 1858, and ends Dec. 18th. Lent term " Jan. 24th, 1859, " April 17th. Easter term " May 2nd, 1859, " June 30th. Reports of the conduct and progress of the pupils are sent at the close of each term. The college is closed on the Prince of Wales's birthday, Ash-Wednesday, Ascension-day, the ... | 1 | 3,051 | 669 | 3,720 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | .In the following table the subjects of the lectures are arranged so as to form a consecutive course of study for four years, and the students—who | 1 | 4,075 | 30 | 4,105 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | COLLEGE TERMS. | 1 | 4,075 | 6 | 4,081 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | .
STUDENTS. | 1 | 4,075 | 5 | 4,080 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | table | 3 |
First Year. Second Year. Third Year. Fourth Year.
1. Arithmetic. 1. Arithmetic.
2. Geography. 2. Geometry.
3. History. 3. English Language and Literature.
4. Latin. 3. Geography.
5. French. 4. Ancient.
6. German. 4. Modern.
7. Italian. 5. History.
8. English Reading aloud. 5. Latin.
9. Drawing. 6. French.
10. Harmony.... | 1 | 4,069 | 588 | 4,657 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | are directed in their choice of subjects by the ladies of the Committee of Education—are entitled to attend seven, and are required to attend five of the classes specified in each year. | 1 | 4,075 | 38 | 4,113 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | FEES.
Students, £18. 18s. a year, or £7. 7s. a term. Entrance fee, £1. 1s.
Pupils taking one class only, for classes meeting twice a week
Pupils taking one class only, for classes meeting once a week
Pupils taking two or more classes, for classes meeting twice a week
Pupils taking two or more classes, for classes ... | 1 | 4,075 | 322 | 4,397 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | TABLE OF SUBJECTS.
...
... | 1 | 4,075 | 8 | 4,083 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | Choice is given where the Subjects are included in brackets. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | somewhat different principle; its first object being to ensure the careful and systematic training of its inmates in “sound religious principles,” according to the teaching of the Church of England. It opened, in the beginning of 1850 with three pupils, and now numbers forty-six. It may interest our readers to hear its... | 1 | 4,012 | 502 | 4,514 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In accordance with this programme, the first examination papers given in the report are on religious subjects, and are specimens of the answers sent in for a prize offered by a gentleman whose daughters were pupils in St. Margaret's College, and who signs himself "A late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge." The prize... | 1 | 3,949 | 224 | 4,173 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | For girls under twelve, the charge at St. Margaret's is sixty pounds per annum, above twelve, seventy pounds. Cripp lies at the foot of the Grampians, and is accessible by railway, altogether forming, so far as we can judge by the report, a desirable place of education for those who wish their daughters to be brought u... | 1 | 2,923 | 573 | 3,496 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It is a heavy drawback from the efficiency of the most thoroughly organised and best officered “Ladies’ College” that the customs and prejudices of society assign to their students in succeeding years but little choice between a very early marriage, philanthropy, or no thing particular to do. And as these three careers... | 1 | 3,819 | 438 | 4,257 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Finally, in reference to the quotation prefixed to the head of this article;—we explained at length the essential distinction between a university, major, and a college, minor,—when shall we see any- thing like “a university for maidens?” It certainly will not be founded among us upon the spur of the moment, nor until ... | 1 | 4,075 | 166 | 4,241 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | more limited numbers and scattered positions regard might be had to keeping the young women in or near their homes, according as the establishments actually received inmates or not.
But with this observation we would vain conclude;—the picture drawn by Mr. Tennyson of six hundred maidens shut up in a collegiate town, ... | 1 | 4,203 | 212 | 4,415 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | BY A GERMAN LADY.
Of all the women who in Germany have been the ornament of our sex, who in some way or other played a prominent part, whose name will be preserved by literature, Frau Rath, the mother of Goethe, was one of the most amiable and remarkable. Her name is dear to all Germans, and she was so closely connect... | 1 | 4,203 | 337 | 4,540 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LII.—FRAU RATH. | 1 | 4,203 | 8 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | courtyard, in which the councillor employed himself many an hour, completed the comforts of this stately habitation.
Several children had been born to Frau Textor before our heroine, but they did not long survive. However she gave birth to three more daughters, who all grew up and were well provided for. Herr Textor w... | 1 | 2,987 | 606 | 3,593 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " This first burst of feeling in the bosom of the growing girl, points already to the enthusiasm for everything great and noble, which forms the characteristic feature of the woman and which | 1 | 4,075 | 36 | 4,111 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Göethe inherited from her. In the same way she recognised at a later period the gigantic greatness of Napoleon and the practical genius of her own son.
Her father, the councillor, who as one of the first officials in Frankfort, had every evening to make a report to the emperor, soon gained the affection and esteem of ... | 1 | 3,755 | 533 | 4,288 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It must have been shortly before this event, that Johann Kaspar Goethe, son of Friedrich George Goethe, who had been a tailor, and who was then the proprietor of the inn “Zum Weidenhof,” attracted by the lovely girl, aspired to her hand. He combined with the advantages of a thorough education and a handsome fortune, go... | 1 | 4,203 | 182 | 4,385 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | trust in an all-ruling Providence which alike decides the destinies of the world and individuals. Rabbi Kayser had studied in Leipsic, graduated in Giessen, and | 1 | 4,203 | 39 | 4,242 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Johann Kasper had suddenly appeared in Hamburg, having just returned from a journey to Italy. He sought an inferior office in the city, and aspired to it without consenting to submit himself to the customary ballot. Meeting with a strong opposition, he withdrew, vowing at the same time never to consent to serve his fel... | 1 | 2,923 | 648 | 3,571 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | earthly regions, in picturing to ourselves how we might wander from star to star, and the great spirits we should there encounter, I was quite as eager to relate as the children were to listen, and never felt more dissatisfied than when an invitation deprived us of our homely evening. How my Wolfgang sat and looked at ... | 1 | 3,563 | 503 | 4,066 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | About this time the house had to be rebuilt, and when the foundation of the new one was laid, the boy Wolfgang officiated as a little mason, handling the trowel with spirit and delight. During this time the parents lodged their two children with some friends, and for a long while their cheerful evenings were completely... | 1 | 4,075 | 137 | 4,212 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of the Popes, although my father wore it as much as any of us."
In the following years, events took place which struck terror everywhere, and which more or less carried their influence into the bosom of every family. The first was the earthquake of Lisbon, which occurred on the 1st of November, 1755, and it is interes... | 1 | 3,947 | 454 | 4,401 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_19 |
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