ABSTRACT
MISS LOUISA BOTICHERETT, of Willingha.m in Lincolnshire, departed this life early on the morning of December 21 in her sleep, aged 74.-
a letter on boarding-out in The Times of J anua.ry 4: of the current year by Miss Florence Davenport Hill :-- ;
"Another pioneer, Miss Louisa Boucherett. of Willingham, Lincolnshire, whose death a few· days ago her disciples deeply mourn, described her earl} experience in the ENGLISHWOMAN'S REVIEW for J~uary, 1867. This was before certified committees eXIsted, and she performed all their duties· herself. Well acquainted with her humble neighbours. she
sometimes asked their advice in her arrangements. One day she applied to a woman busy at her wash-tub who gave very excellent counsel, but without stopping a moment in her operations, and with so little courtesy of manner that her interlocutor felt tempted to curtail her questioning, But as the latter turned to depart the woman paused in her work and said, with her hands clasped in the suds, 'The Lord prosper you and bless the poor lasses.' Writing afterwards to a friend Miss Boucherett referred to boarding-out as ' the most delightful and least costly mode of doing good.' "
Miss Boucherett was the second lady to take up this subject, the first being Mrs, Archer, who wrote a letter to the Workhouse Visiting Journal, edited by Miss Louisa Twining, which attracted her attention, and led to her making personal acquaintance with Mrs. Archer, and afterwards with the Misses Davenport Hill, by whom the subject was warmly taken up.
