(Adapted from Herrick.)
“There is nothing in the pit-brow work, nor in the costume necessitated, that tells against modesty. It makes fine, healthy, strapping women—not exactly after the pattern of Fenella or Miranda—but women who are the fit mates for the men whose wives and mothers they are.”—Mrs. Lynn Linton on the “Pit-brow Women.”
A fine frank roughness in the dress,
Is better than La Mode’s excess;
Flannel about the shoulders thrown,
A stayless bodice and loose zone;
Stout clogs or highlows and a pair
Of coarse hose much the worse for wear;
A kerchief-cap, and trailed thereby,
Wild locks that flow confusedly;