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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 49 (search)
nsidered as clearly unwomanly as that of Greek. Where, in spite of this, a woman came of a musical stock, and showed positive marks of genius, she was still held to a subordinate and almost suppressed position — as in the striking case of Fanny Mendelssohn, who was only encouraged by her family to compose so long as her beautiful compositions passed under her brother's name and helped to swell his fame. When she proposed to publish for herself, she was regarded by her family as unsexing hers High English scientific authority has said that we never shall know how much science lost by the almost total early neglect of the rare powers of Mary Somerville. We know as little what the musical world lost by the domestic repression of Fanny Mendelssohn. We do not even know, as the latest biographer of the family admits, which of her brother's published Songs without words she composed. It may have been the very finest, and her genius may have been intrinsically greater than his. Mr.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
5. manners, the Empire of, 75. Mariotti. See Gallenga. Marketable accomplishments, 60. Marriage, chances of, 65. Marshall, Emily, 177. Martincan, Harriet, quoted, 7, 228. Also 13, 263. martyrdom, Mice and, 141. Matchin, Maud, 103, 104. Mather, Cotton, quoted, 252. Matthews, Brander, 171. Mazare, Prince, 160. Mazzili, Giuseppe, 129, 309. Mellin's Food, 265. men, the nervousness of, 238. men's novels and women's novels, 156. Mendelssohn, B. F., 15. Mendelssohn, Fanny, musical compositions of, 15, 251. Meretricious, origin of the word, 10. Mericourt, Theroigne de, 236. Mice and martyrdom, 141. Michigan University, 287. Miller, Captain, Betsey, 211. Millet, J. F., 194. Milton, John, 19, 285. Minerva, 45. Miranda, 102, 103. Missionaries, 236. Moliere, J. B., 87. Moore, Thomas, quoted, 19, 278. Mopsa, 102. Moral equivalence of sexes, 91. more thorough work visible, 286. Morse, S. F. B., 99. mother, on one's Relatio