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296 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS.
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XLYIIL—CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS.
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In making the attempt Miss Cornwallis co...
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Among The Numerous Papers Which Have App...
the other sex , that they servilely flatter men into the belief ther that they few are satisfied who with do not their dislik position e streng . They thsincerity believe that or
e are men , , pardon high spirit and in toleration a woman . for They whatever are , th of erefore these , anxious qualities to their earn
submission writings may on exhibit this : th on at other th subjects ive , by no a occasion studied " for disp vul lay of gar
men to say ( what nothing will ey prevent may g vulgar men from saying ) that learning makes women unfeminine , and that literary
and ladies Let the are all event honorable likel will y to be paths bad whether to wives distin . " women ction be reall open desire to both and sexes have , y
within them the cap prove acity for that intellectual and moral development arid in the , which face of hith difficulties erto has onl which y been onl attained y genius by or individuals an almost ,
superhuman perseverance could have overcome .
296 Caroline Frances Cornwallis.
296 CAROLINE FRANCES _CORNWALLIS .
Xlyiil—Caroline Frances Cornwallis.
XLYIIL—CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS . { Concluded . )
In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...
In making the attempt Miss Cornwallis contemplated , there were prejudices of sex as well as polemical prejudices to be
encountered . In these days of super-eminently popular lady novelistsit is curious to read how far the doubts of that period
extended , as to the capabilities of women , when Miss C . mentions , —
of " the I have reviewers been much are m amused aking about lately women by seeing ' s interference the splutter in which what some they if shocked p consider h they ysical hav ly that men e cap imagin they ' s able affairs should ation of . the The think enoug hig Quarterl her h of to such intellectual construct y in one - a exercises p story lace things . denies The ; as in politics Forei that another gn women . is This doubts much are is
surely something rather absurd in a country pawpaw where its greatest monarch was a woman , and which is very soon to come under a woman again . " A studof the Life of Wilberforce seems at this time to have
impressed y Miss C . more deeply than ever with the value of practical efforts , as contrasted with the mere cultivation of a
frame uprihtness of mind and , for sincerel she full good y believed intentions that that with his hilanthrop thoroug ist h
might g have effected very y much more for his country p than he . didhad he formed a more correct estimate of the proportion in
which , exercises of devotion should he blended with works of usefulness . She thus alludes to him : — _,
with "I him am . reading He gro the ans ' Life becaus of e Wilberforce he cannot keep , ' and his am thoug sadl hts y out fixed of on patience divine _i
contemplations in the midst of a dinner-party , and imputes it to himself asa _>
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/8/
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