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Is.Is (pseud.) : 'Woman's Mission'

Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a number — for last January, I think — in which there was an article entitled "Woman's Mission" (the phrase is hackneyed), containing a great deal that seemed to me just and sensible. Men begin to regard the position of woman in another light than they used to do; and a few men, whose sympathies are fine and whose sense of justice is strong, think and speak of it with a candour that commands my admiration. [comments further on issue of position of women in society]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

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