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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 10 0 Browse Search
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 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 17 (search)
XVII. women's influence on literary style. We are fortunate in having from one of the masters of French literature, Fontenelle, a felicitous statement of what women had contributed up to his time, through men, in the formation of literary style; ent was made more than a century ago, and made for Frenchmen, it still has in it much truth for all manner of persons. Fontenelle, it should be remembered, died in 1757, within a month of completing his hundred years, and without the slightest impai[une certaine fleur d'esprit], you must have men who have been polished by the society of women. It was, to be sure, Fontenelle who said on another occasion that there were three things which he had always loved very much without knowing anything ography. Alas! English spelling still awaits the eight hundred women who shall bring it back to common-sense. Since Fontenelle's day women have begun to show what they could do personally in the way of literary style, besides acting through men.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
1,97, 99,285, 308. Empire of manners, the, 75. English tourists in America, 36, 96. Epictetus, 297. Eumenides of Aeschylus, the plot of, 44. Eve, 7. exalted stations, 126. F. Family, the, among Australians, 45; in ancient Rome, 45. Farm, children on A, 197. fear of its being wasted, the, 232. Felix Holt, 78. Fielding, Henry, 11. Fields, J. T., 40. finer forces, 131. Fletcher, Alice C., 287. flood-tide of youth, the, 48. Florac, Madame de, 180. Fontenelle, B. le B. de, quoted, 85. Francomania, 26. Franklin, Benjamin, 296. Freeman, Alice, 21. French standards vs. English, 23, 98. Frenchmen, domesticity of, 281. Friends, marriages among, 47. Fuller, Margaret. See Ossoli. Furies, the, 44. G. Galahad, Sir, 296. Gallenga, A., 98. Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 309. Garrison, W. L., 18, 177. Garth, Caleb, 294. Gellius, Aulus, quoted, 97. Genlis, Madame de, 57, 179. German schools, drawbacks of, 246. Gerikiman standar