Reprinted from an article by Catherine Helen Spence in the South Australian Register. Commenting on the social position of women Spence said, 'A few years hence every man with a life-income who has more than one or two daughters will bring them up to some remunerative employment. To save them from the humiliating position of seeing in marriage their only refuge from poverty and neglect ...' (p. 8)

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