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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 4 (search)
rles Eliot Norton, and one of the most cultivated critics of his day; and it appears from the late memoirs of Garrison that her verses were long the favorite food of that strong and heroic mind. Yet it has been the custom to speak of her popularity as a thing of the past. Now arrives Mr. Routledge, and gives the figures as to his sales of the different poets in a single calendar year. First comes Longfellow, with the extraordinary sale of 6000 copies; then we drop to Scott, with 3170: Shakespeare, 2700; Byron, 2380; Moore, 2276; Burns, 2250. To these succeeds Mrs. Hemans, with a sale of 1900 copies, Milton falling short of her by 50, and no one else showing much more than half that demand. Hood had 980 purchasers,Cowper, 800, and all others less; Shelley had 500 and Keats but 40. Of course this is hardly even an approximate estimate of the comparative popularity of these poets, since much would depend, for instance, on the multiplicity or value of rival editions; but it proves
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 6 (search)
hood and women, or of that womanhood which creates home. It is not only potent for itself, but it extends its potency over all other homes. What, compared to this, is the social position given by wealth to the lonely old bachelor of the country village? Though he be a millionaire, he is simply the old bach. The truth is that as people grow older it is the man who becomes dependent, and the woman the central and essential figure of the household, since she can do without him, and he cannot do without her. The proof of this lies in the fact that we see all around us self-sufficing and contented households of women, while a house that contains men only is a barrack, not a home. In youth it is easy to ignore this, to say with Shakespeare in Henry V. Tis ever common That men are merriest when away from home; but the merriment is shallow, the laugh is forced, and years and illness and sorrow soon bring man back, a repentant prodigal, to his home and to woman, the only home-maker.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, X. The flood-tide of youth. (search)
tenure, how insecure and brief is yours. That is the worst of it. A tinge of self-consciousness would imply a trace of weakness. Their demeanor is never defiant or insolent; it would be too flattering were it thus. Such a bearing would imply a certain equality; whereas there is no equality between those who possess the future and those who only hold the defined and limited past. You are not slighted as an individual, but simply superseded as a generation. There is no equality between Shakespeare's dying King Henry and the Prince Hal who tries on his crown. In the case of these college youths, disrespect would be almost complimentary; it is the supreme and absolute indifference that overwhelms. You may have your place in the world, such as it is. Old age hath yet its honor and its toil. They neither assert nor deny it. Why should they? They simply shoulder their way through the ranks of mature persons, triumphantly heedless, like the conquering Goths through the streets of Rom
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 11 (search)
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 the Border and awaa with Jock oa Hazeldean. Shakespeare does not love to paint characterless heroines: I grant I am a woman; but, withal, A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife; I grant I am a woman; but, withal, A woman well reputed-Cato's daughter. Even the child Juliet at fourteen is able to resist her whole proud household, and there is more peril in her eyes than in twenty of their swords. The very disproportion between bodily and mental strength makes personal character more conspicuous in women, as it was often noticed in our army th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 18 (search)
interpreted; but this general proposition, heard so often from the lips of mediocre men, seems a little unworthy of the strength and fearlessness of Lotzc. It is my experience that the men who talk in this way, and who dwell on the companion conviction that a woman is never so well off as when she finds a strong man to rule her, do not belong in general to the strongest class of men. A man of really large and broad force likes to find some companion quality in the partner of his life, as Shakespeare's Brutus found it in Portia: O ye gods, Render me worthy of this nolle wife! It is rather the man failing to impress his own individuality on the world outside who insists on making the most of it by his own fireside, and at least posing as a little monarch there. A weak wife will sometimes be happy in being crushed by such a fireside despot; and a strong and good-natured wife will smile inwardly while she listens to the lofty words of a husband whom she perhaps winds round her fing
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 20 (search)
its presence, even as exhibited among children, is to make the rural life of New England far more attractive than our novelists usually paint it. Rusticity, on the whole, fares well in English literature. When we think of it as depicted by Shakespeare, we think less of his dull or vulgar Audreys and Mopsas than of Miranda and Perdita. Both these last heroines represent a life absolutely removed from all that cities can offer; both are in part idealized, but Miranda the more so; we think ofendency to cities — a combination which is making us all into a nation that dwells half the year on the pavements and the other half in the wilderness-we may go back to that poetic side of existence which suggested his Perditas and Mirandas to Shakespeare. We shall never get back to the fantastic shepherdesses of French and Italian song, for these never were on sea or land; but we may at least hope to find, in the rural types of character, a corrective to the dangers of a purely metropolitan s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 21 (search)
expensively, and the common-sense of even the elder branch of the Anglo-Saxon race will assert itself. This all are coming to see; but what men do not see so clearly is that not only much of the melodrama of the present, but much written history of the past, will shrink in value with the disappearance of monarchy, and will be no more held in men's minds. When the Western continent is held by a hundred millions of people who care no more for the name of king than did the roaring waves in Shakespeare's Tempest, those thronging myriads can afford to dismiss from their memories three-quarters of the European wars, turning upon dynastic quarrels as valueless for profit as the forgotten strifes among the Saxon heptarchy. Every step that in any way illustrates the slow passage of man to political self-government will have a continued and even a redoubled interest; but every strife to decide whether somebody's third cousin or fourth cousin should get the throne will have no further value b
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 35 (search)
trange, then, that women should cling to youth and shrink from recognizing the fact of age, even to the suppression of the record in the family Bible. But it would be wronging womanhood to admit this to be the whole or even the chief part of the story. Often in a family of sisters, she who had her reign of beauty at eighteen gives place, after a time, to another who passed for years unnoticed, but replaces her lovelier sister at thirty or forty, and thence holds her own into old age. Shakespeare, who saw all things, did not neglect this more prolonged sway or Indian summer of womanhood: Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, And give the crutch the cradle's infancy. Taking the world as a whole, the remarkable proofs of the ascendancy of woman are the trophies of age, not of youth. The utmost beauty leaves the Oriental woman but a petted toy in youth; yet when a mother she has a life-long slave in her son, and an Eastern emperor will declare war or make peace at her bidding
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
. Salisbury, Lord, 136. Salmon, L. M., 287. Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A. Sanitary Commission, the, 235. Santa Claus agencies, 269. Sappho, 262. Sapsea, Thomas, 94. Schlemihl, Peter, 12. Scott, Sir, Walter, quoted 55. Also 19,157,194. Scudery, Charles de, 15. Scudery, Magdalen de, quoted, 15, 87, 159. search after A publisher, the, 151. secret of the birthday, 176. Sedgwick, C. M., 289. Seward, Anna, 113, 114. shadow of the harem, the, 12. Shakespeare, William, quoted, 56,91, 177, 178, 239. Also 19, 32, 49, 55, 102, 103, 108, 262. Shelley, P. B., 19. shy graces, the, 306. sick, on visiting the, 227. Siddons, Sarah, 250. Simms, W. G., 223. single will, the, 90. Sisters of Charity, 69. Size, physical, gradual diminution of, 262. Smith College, 275. social pendulum, the swing of the, 22. social superiors, 171. Society, origin of its usages, 77. Socrates, 81. Somerville, Mary, 250, 251,252, 261. Sophocles, E.