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348 NOTICES Or BOOKS.
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
positivel out good y in refused any path . If but her that success which in ob any solete such eustom path be has undeniable prescribed , to it is her ac is
while knowle of the the bitterest dged mistakes in ridicule an or insolentl failure and y s visited of comp certain limentary women all . style Well are as sing ! the an led woman exceptional out as who a theme reads case ; _, upon
this well-writtenbrilliant , ' unanswerable' article is perhaps at the very time working society hard , has with provided all , the for power herto Gte > gain d has her given dail her bread , traine to d assist by such her
means as , y , pay dissi strugg ing pated ling the brother : famil college y ; ( debts perhaps have , or known she supporting may such be the cases sustaining unacknowled thoug an h we indi ged do gent children not father speak , of , or of a
, we , b them y a . cynical ) She impertinence reads ,- —and , the sink words into > her winged heart , b and y eloquence leave an ulcer and envenome there tone . the It d
words slig is not hting _^ the —with facts allusion which or the , the truths heartless gentlemanl which ' offend jocosity , it '— is lishe to the ' borrow d vul otherwise gar one flippant of their , own and
honorable terrible in men a woman , can ' men s sport fate , . with Those what who y is , accomp most say is to sacred us too , 'He in , lp a ! woman yourselves generous ' s life ! ' — mi most ght
in were say the in to 1 this 9 take th case Century up , the ' Retort pen ! ' and and is pointing write easy ! ' a to review It absurd so , headed — mistakes easy in cap in leg ital Suppose islation letters to a ; , mad woman ' to Mmn the
want credulous of public speculations spirit in with public borrowed men ; to gold frau ; dul to social ent bankruptcies evils of the ; masculine or - gender corrupting the homeof othersand polluting their own—and wind
respond up the p to hilippic article with— 'Of Sill s such Novels are , our "b pastors _LadNovelists and our ' masters by an ? article ' Or
headed but God ' Sill forbid an y _Novels that it by ever on _Gentlemen ' should y be Novelists done y !— ? Gro ' True y d forbid ! this that mi , women ght be done should — it would
ever enter an arena of contest in which victory , were possible , " good be destruction written ! spoken The aggravating and of all words things of we angry could women look to never for hel did any
recrimination , were or the mo ; st foolish and the most fatal . If men * can p sport , with to them that it part is of bad the enoug social h ; happ but iness I trust and in virtue God which that no has woman been entrusted will ever :
scorn profane , or , the aveng sanctitie ing license s of life b y left license in , her for keep that heads ing were by not retorting merely scorn to deface with
which the " social Meantime men edifice have , those , not but calculated who to pull look it on dawn and cannot which upon but our women see that cannot . here is avert a _mischief . It is done still
worse allows when of possible these accomp retort lished and , insinuate writers stoop imputations to a mode which of no attack woman which cait
hear without no shrinking , and , against which self-defence is ignominious _» Now _* as formerly , reviewers perfectly understand this must ; 'b endure ut , ' men them say , 'if women then '
will expose themselves to these attacks , they ;* so- * have we may known depend lad on ' wh man ' s bent protection on some ' onl mission y ] so long of as we do ventured not need it at H an I *
gentleman unusual hour who a , to mistook pass y 9 throug o her , calling h Oxford : but Street then , , and , ' wh was y mercy did grossl in she , which y expose insulted , womant herself by a . '
to must such do an the accident duty that ? lies Wh before y ?—because her even there at the are risk cases of a derisive a satire or a cowardly insult , * just as there are he will occasions be shot when at from a man behind must hed march *
there la strai ug "I h ght springs confess rings forward loud that , in in thoug I the see the h minds in reading he these knows of - things room intellectual of grav a fashionable e and matter thoug for club htful apprehension , and women meantime a hi . ge h . A . -
born industrial and hi g h up -hearted competition , a sp in irit the of working silent antagonism classes . " far more dangerous , than g _,
any The second part of the letter treats ' of what English , women ,
require .
348 Notices Or Books.
348 NOTICES Or BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/60/
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