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founder pure and tints love of ly feeling color - as , as the the pages delineations of Mary of Mitford Mrs . Inchbald , with the . pro Our - female
bition fall of that painters sparkling overleaps are incorrectness too itself much . up One on , tender the lad level paints , mist of y Mrs Italian imag . Hemans ination scenes or , and with L . E . am the L » . - ;
desperate brush of Mrs . _Ratcliffe ; another y gives us truth and pathos others mixed up shower with upon the ug us ly those simplicit delusive y of the reproductions shepherd of of Salisbury some admired plain ;
h master ollow . ' s style , which are like electrotypes of the real thing , —quite
tion To that half the a dozen next ten names years we will look liffc with them anxious into and recognised hopeful position expecta- ,
fit some tho in ' few a popular . " We sense look , others to them in that to shew of acquiring us the womanl an " audience
exand pressions we use of the art , words developed " a recognised _from within position , not imitated " advisedl from because without y if ;
they are to stimulate othersand to clear a new and beautiful y , field of labor for womenit can onl , be done bthat definite achievement
of which the perfect , works of y the Creator y offer us examples perpetually . God ' s works are complete in themselves and immeasurabl
suggestive beyond the line of their completion . Something of thi y s completeness must be attained in works of artbefore the hiher and
, g more mystical meanings evolve . In vaster forms , —as in mountain ranges , —in the plays of Shakspearethe frescoes of Michael Angelo
, , we may allow for ideas roughly indicated and boundaries undefined . But in lesser things a want of perfectness is a want of truth .
In another profession , that of the sculptor , we have very few laborers . Everything we have said of painters will also applto
students of the plastic art ; but it is even more difficult of attainment y hy women ; its materials more cumbrous , its opportunities more rare .
Yet it is attracting their notice , and the cellar of the Royal Academy already shows us a fair proportion of female names in those pages
of the catalogue devoted to making its dark places plain . We now come to the one art in which women have , from first to
last , achieved success , renown , and emolument commensurate with those of its male professors , —the histrionic art . Who will award
the palm between Garrick and Mrs . Siddons ? To what actor shall we assign pre-eminence over Rachel and Ristori ? The queens of
the drama have swayed the world , and won for themselves the brightest honors . And why ? Because in their profession natural
endowment is almost everything , while the curriculum , though i necessary , is of comparatively small importance ; becausemoreover ,
, they were absolutely necessary to the development of the art , and have therefore been aided , encouraged , and protected in its exercise
by the other sex . Everything has been done to prevent women excelling in other departments , not out of malice prepense , but
according to a pre-conceived theory as to their proper sphere ; they
have been debarred from all those institutions where young men
6 On The Adoption Of Professional Life B...
6 ON THE ADOPTION OF _PROFESSIONAL LIFE BY WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/6/
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