An affectionate pleading for England's oppressed female workers
Subtitle: respectfully addressed to my Queen, the government, the aristocracy, the clergy, and the consuming classes in general
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: W. Clowes and Sons
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Women; Economic conditions; Working class women
Notes: Signed: Wm. Shaw.

"I say not to the Public, for the Public is an ill-favoured phantom which is made accountable for all sort of iniquity. I have often been told the Public will not be satisfied unless we do this: thus men commit all manner of enormity for fear of this phantasm-- the Public. Seek to please god, and you will have the praise of all good men; and what is better, His blessing upon all your proceedings."

Reproduction of the original from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.