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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 11 (search)
, worn By feet of old colonial knights And ladies gentle born; And on her, from the wainscot old, Ancestral faces frown, And this has worn the soldier's sword, And that the judge's gown. But strong of will and proud as they, She walks the gallery floor As if she trod her sailor's deck In stormy Labrador. What a fascinating thing, after all, is strength in a woman! With what delight all readers turned from the weak or wicked heroine of Thackeray's earlier novels to his superb young Ethel Newcome, strong of will and proud as they who would have domineered over her. Scott, with his love of chivalry, always flung some attribute of courage about the women whom he meant to win our hearts-or he failed if he did not. Even his graceful Ellen Douglas is incapable of actual cowardice. I think with anguish, or, if e'er A Douglas knew the word, with fear. So, in the Scottish ballads, it takes something more than a weakling to spring up behind young Lochinvar in the saddle, or to be owre
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 38 (search)
he had induced all cultivators to annihilate their greenhouses, root lip their orchids, and spend the rest of their lives poring with spectacles among the scant grasses of that not very luxuriant enclosure where he found his fame? The novel of pure character, says Mr. Gosse, in the Pall Mall Gazette, is the novel of the future. The after-ages will wonder that we preferred our assassins and our bigamists to the Lady of the Aroostook, just as we ourselves wonder that an age which had Colonel Newcome and Becky Sharp before its eyes could waste its time on the false, crude, high-flown romanticism of the first Lord Lytton and his idealistic waxworks. There is always something very impressive in the way these young poets deal with after-ages; and it might be pointed out that Becky Sharp was practically a bigamist and probably an assassin; and why, moreover, select for condemnation a novelist who would have been meretricious even had he been a realist? The real question is whether th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
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 Relationship to one's, 43. Mott, Lucretia, 47, 179. Muller, Max, 26. Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263. musical woman, The Missing, 249. N. Napoleon. See Bonaparte. Napoleon, Louis, 101. Napoleons, dynasty of the, 98. Nausikaa, 8, 11. Nervousness of men, the, 238. New theory of language, the, 181. Newcome, Ethel, 55. Newell, W. W., 13. Newport, R. I., life at, 71, 98. Nicknames in college, 275. Nightingale, Florence, 19. Nithisdale, Countess of, 56. Normandy, a scene in, 201. Northcote, Sir, Stafford, 136. Norton, Andrews, 18. Norton, C. E., 18. novels: men's and women's, 156. Nursery, a model, 264. O. Odyssey, Palmer's, 248. Opie, Amelia, 157. Orestes, 44. Organizing mind, the, 146. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, quoted, 211, 232. Outside of the shelter, 7.