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Marriage Questions In Modern Fiction, And Other Essays On Kindred Subjects (1897) (Paperback)
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Marriage Questions In Modern Fiction, And Other Essays On Kindred Subjects (1897) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The
Disparagement of Women in Literature " The time has fully come when
the actions of women are not to be judged or commented upon as the
actions of a sex. That is to say, the actions of women are human
actions, and not necessarily perpetually feminine." Mrs Meynell.
The Disparagement of Women in Literature In the year of grace 1850,
the year that Wordsworth died and that Tennyson became Laureate in
his place and gave " In Memoriam" to the world, there was born a
gifted woman whose difficult career affords melancholy proof of how
much civilisation has yet to learn in the matter of justice to
women. Sonya Kovalevsky, the now world-renowned Russian
mathematician, died but the other day, comparatively a young woman,
and the tragedy of her brief life, full of obstacle and impediment,
of slight and insult, of distress and disappointment, is a standing
blot upon the last half of our century, a standing reproach to
modern enlightenment and modern culture. But she obtained a
professorship at Stockholm University ? Yes; through the chivalry
and untiring efforts of one man, Professor Mittag Leffler,
Stockholm tardily gave her a Chair. " Stockholm was the only
University that would open its doors to me," she herself says,
pathetically; only Stockholm out of the scores of Universities in
cultivated Europe?in Christian Europe. But Paris awarded her the
Prix Bordin ? Yes; towards the close of her storm-tossed life, in
the fifth act of the tragedy, the French Academy of Science gave
her the prize that was her due, the laurels that she had won. But
she was crowned only when she was crushed, when the long struggle
against adverse fate had begun to exhaust her vitality and impair
her health, when her nervous force, always drained by her excessive
emotionalism, was fairly spent ...
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