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MISS KING, the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of
Women, 22, Berners-street, Oxford-street, W., writes:--In the G.O.P. for
September there is an article (one of a series) on wood engraving by Mr.
R. Taylor. I have read the articles with great interest, and I entirely
agree with the greater part of what Mr. Taylor says. But he writes as if
there were no opening for girls in the trade. I fully admit that only a
small number are at present employed in it, but he writes that he does
not believe that engraving can be effectually taught in schools or
classes, and that he has not met with a single individual who has
attained by this means skill enough to earn a livelihood. Now it is a
fact that there are 12 or 14 girls employed at an engraver's in the
City, who have learnt engraving at the City and Guilds of London Art
School, which was established about six years ago, and some of these
girls are doing excellent work and earning very good wages. Engraving is
an art which requires persevering study for four or five years at the
least, so that the school has not yet been established for a
sufficiently long time to have trained a large number of girls, but the
instruction given there is thoroughly good, and if the girls will
persevere as long with it as they would be obliged to do if they were
regularly apprenticed, I do not think there is any fear but that they
will succeed in getting employment; but their work must be good.
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