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| "Silly, vacant women are, it is true, sometimes preferred
by men, and obtain their affections; but
what a fearful charge it is for a woman
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Online text of Womankind
Womankind
An essay on the phases of a woman's life in the mid-nineteenth centry - education, place in the family, work inside and outside the home. The Nursery
Womankind contains three chapters on childhood, one called Nursery Training. She also addresses how children were looked after in the nursery. In some cases they slept in the room where the maids ate their supper and did the sewing. Yonge describes such an arrangement in her own childhood in the 1820s.
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