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" Fathers say so likewise, and are angry with their daughters when they observe their manoeuvres : they order them to stay at home. What do they expect them to do at home ? If you ask — they would answer, sew and cook. They expect them to do this, and... "
Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant and The Communion of Labor - Page 35
by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 302 pages
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 2

430 pages
...anything else, — a doctrine as reaeonahle to hold, as it would he that the fathers havo no faculties hut for eating what their daughters cook, or for wearing...sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not he very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, hut only reproaches at its slightest...
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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 588 pages
...decline in health : they are never well ; and their minds and views shrink to wonderous narrowness. The great wish — the sole aim of every one of them...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves 1 Would they not be very weary ? And when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 1

C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...regularly, uncomplainingly, all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else ; a doctrine as reasonable to hold, as it would be that the fathers have no faculties, but for their eating what their daughters cook, or for wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 38

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 602 pages
...regularly, uncomplainingly, all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else ; — a doctrine as reasonable to hold as it...live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? Men of England ! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around you, dropping off in consumption...
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Shirley: A Tale

Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 pages
...manoeuvres : they order them to stay at home. What do they expect them to do at homo ? If you ask—they would answer, sew and cook. They expect them to do...have no faculties but for eating what their daughters cock, or for wearing what they sow. Could men live so themselves 1 Would they not be very weary ? And...
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Sisters of Charity; And, The Communion of Labour: Two Lectures on the Social ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1859 - 376 pages
...regularly, uncomplaininglv, all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else ; — a doctrine as reasonable to hold as it...cook, or for wearing what they sew. Could men live so themeelves? would they not be verv weary? and when there camo no relief to their weariness, but only...
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Shirley: A Tale

Charlotte Brontë - 1874 - 564 pages
...regularly, uncomplainingly all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else : a doctrine as reasonable to hold, as it would...fathers have no faculties but for eating what their danghters cook, or for wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very...
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What girls can do: a book for mothers and daughters, by Phillis Browne

Sarah Sharp Hamer - 1885 - 408 pages
...cooking will serve to fill a girl's life as it would be, to use the words of Currer Bell, to expect that " the fathers have no faculties but for eating...their daughters cook, or for wearing what they sew." The conclusion of the whole matter therefore is this : a girl must learn needlework as a matter of...
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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë - 1899 - 722 pages
...regularly, -uncomplainingly all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else : a doctrine as reasonable to hold, as it would...the fathers have no faculties but for eating what then: daughters cook, or for wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be...
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Women's Fabian Tracts

Sally Alexander - 2001 - 464 pages
...regularly, uncomplainingly, all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else. A doctrine as reasonable to hold as it would...what their daughters cook, or for wearing what they sew.'7 The same restlessness, unconscious as it usually was of its cause, was expressed even more fully...
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