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Social Work" in 1901 in which she confesses her own shyness when talking about religious subjects to strangers. She explains her own approach and how upper and middle class girls can assist working class girls if they realise that they too can learn from the experience. At this time helping in girls' clubs was a fashionable hobby for upper class girls who were denied a career or higher education. One report from the
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