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" 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 this only, contentedly, regularly, uncomplainingly, all their lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else ; —... "
Sisters of Charity; And, The Communion of Labour: Two Lectures on the Social ... - Page 16
by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1859 - 148 pages
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 19

1856 - 978 pages
...market is overstocked.' Fathers say so like are angry with their daughters when they observe their i they order them to stay at home. What do they expect them at home ? If you ask, they would answer — ' sew and cook.' expect them to do this, and this only,...
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Shirley, by Currer Bell, Volume 2

Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 320 pages
...overstocked. 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 this only, contentedly, regularly,...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 2

430 pages
...overstocked. Fathers say so likewise, and are angry with their daughters when they ohserve their manœuvres ; they order them to stay at home. What do they expect them to do at home ? If 220 221 you ask, they would answer — sew and cook. They expect them to do this, and this only, contentedly,...
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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 588 pages
...overstocked. 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...lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for any thing else : a doctrine as reasonable to hold, as it would be that the fathers have no faculties...
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Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant and The Communion of Labor

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 318 pages
...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...lives long, as if they had no germs of faculties for any thing else; — a doctrine as reasonable to hold as it would be that the fathers have no faculties...
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Shirley: A Tale

Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 pages
...overstocked. Fathers say so likewise, and are angry with their daughter* when they observe their 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 this, and this only, contentedly,...
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Shirley, Volume 1

Charlotte Brontë - 1899 - 744 pages
...overstocked. 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...contentedly, regularly, uncomplainingly all their livqs long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else : a doctrine as reasonable to hold,...
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Educated Working Women: Essays on the Economic Position of Women Workers in ...

Clara Elizabeth Collet - 1902 - 160 pages
...overstocked. 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...germs of faculties for anything else — a doctrine as unreasonable to hold, as it would be that the fathers have no faculties but for eating what their daughters...
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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë - 1911 - 738 pages
...overstocked. 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 ? -j~ If you ask, — they would answer, sew and cook. They expect them to do this, and this only,...
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Quarterly, Volume 7

1906 - 504 pages
...of the middle class be allowed some variety. "They are only expected," she writes, "to cook and sew all their lives long as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered and they will be a care and anxiety. Cultivate them, give...
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