"I speak to you Englishwomen Mothers and wives who love your homes and your children, who are able to give them all that modern knowledge and skill and science can devise. What are you going to do about this ? I speak to you first, because you best can gauge the harm which is being done to children and to child-mothers, and because there is in your hearts whether born of intelligence and civic persuasion, or of religion the conviction that we are indeed "the keepers" of every other member of the human family."(Shubala 20)

Shubala - A Child-Mother is another text by Cornelia Sorabji which discusses saving and educating women and children in India during the early twentieth century. Schubala is a young Indian girl who gets married at the age ten. The pamphlet gives examples of practices and traditions that endanger the lives of Indian women and children. Sorabji concludes the text with a message for educated English and Indian women that calls for reconstructing the position of women and children through raising awareness about the importance of providing education and proper healthcare for them. 

 

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Year of Publication: 1920