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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 16 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 22 (search)
XXII. women's letters. Would you desire, says De Quincey in his Essay on style, at this day to read our noble language in its native beauty, picturesque from idiomatic propriety, racy in its phraseology, delicate yet sinewy in its composition,-and-water, or perhaps one light say, Coleridge-and-air-full of cloudy glimpses and rich treasures half displayed. Had De Quincey imitated the women's letters he described, his writings would have a longer lease of life. And in the same spirit wither up and the terror that took her down; and it is by comparison with these that we find the Pyramid truly enormous. De Quincey's own theory of the advantage enjoyed by women as letter-writers is somewhat different from this; he attributes their sight write ill and affectedly, he thinks; but their letters are composed under the benefit of their natural advantages, De Quincey holds. Yet he must remember that women, like men, or more than men, are influenced by current fashion; and letters, as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Coulanges, F. de, 45. Counterparts, 68. Country weeks ald city weeks, 34. Cowper, William, 19. Craddock, C. E. See Marfree, M. N. Creator of The home, the, 28. Cross, M. A. (George Eliot), quoted, 78. Also 88, 158, 249, 252, 260, 263, 290. Crowne, Johnny, 5. D. Dabney, Charles, 170. Danton, G. J., 6. D'Arblay, Madame, 157. Darwin, Charles, quoted, 99. Also 23, 308. Darwin, Dr., Erasmus, 114. Daughters of Toil, The, 70. Davidson sisters, the, 289. De Quincey, Thomas, quoted, 110. Defoe, Daniel, 285. Dibdin, Charles, quoted, 278. Dickens, Charles, quoted, 94, 195. Also 109, 285. Diderot, Denis, 178. Dinner, difficulties of the, 240. Dix, Dorothea, 20. dolls, the discipline of, 264. Domestic service, 172. Douglas, Catherine, 56. Douglas, Ellen, 55. Dudevant, A. L. A. (George Sand), 88, 249, 252, 260, 263. E. Edgeworth, Maria, quoted, 78. Also 157, 180. Edison, T. A., 209. Edmunds, George F., 137. Edward II., 213