‘In the Early Days of the Movement on Behalf of the Wives’, Daily News, 29 December 1857, P. 4.
Year: 2020

In the early days of the movement on behalf of the wives and children sent out in the Crimean war, it appeared that so very natural and kindly a movement was carried on in forgetfulness of the fact that women of that class usually earn their bread before marriage, and have every reason to expect to do it afterwards. It is understood, we believe, that in our great towns nine women in ten support themselves by their own industry; and the class into which private soldiers and seamen marry is the in