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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Gail Hamilton-Miss Dodge. (search)
she has been told that notwithstanding she has amassed several pennies, the fruits of these wicked promulgations, and deposited the same in banks for a rainy day, the sex whom she defies may, contrary to their usual custom in such cases, refuse oven to nibble at that bait, and doom her to die, without a chance to sew on shirt-buttons, or seat a pair of trowsers. One naturally inquires how such a female monster came to exist? In other and more elegant phrase, what did it? Was she, like Romulus and Remus, suckled by a she-wolf in her infancy? Were vipers her cherished toys in childhood? Was her youth defrauded of the usual sugar-plums that she keeps on making mouths at her fellow-creatures in this way? Or, what is still more important to ascertain, is there any way she could be pacified, or bought off, or shut up, from this infernal attempt to set women upon their feet, and to trip men from off theirs. To convince yon how pertinent is my question, I will quote in this conne