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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, V. The swing of the social pendulum. (search)
V. The swing of the social pendulum.
The newspapers are constantly satirizing a tendency to Anglomania which is said to prevail just now in American society, or at least in a few cities and watering-places along the Atlantic shore.
It is not habitually mentioned that this is but a swing of the same pendulum which seemed, twenty years ago, to be swinging the other way, and carrying us away from everything English and towards everything French.
The same pendulum has been steadily vibrating, indeed, ever since the foundation of our government, and its movements have never had any great or important influence upon the mass of the American people.
Be this as it may, it is perfectly certain that the whim in fashion thirty and even twenty years ago was quite unlike what it now is. Good Americans were said, when they died, to go to Paris, and even the wit of Tom Appleton never ventured to suggest that they should go to London.
At Newport it was for many years held essential to do thi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 35 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 36 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 52 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Index.
(Titles of chapters are given in capital letters.)
A.
Abbott, H. C. De S., 286.
Academy, French, originated with women, 86.
Accomplisiments, marketable, 60.
Adam, 7.
Adams, Abigail, 114.
Adams, John, 114.
Aeschylus, 44.
Agassiz, Louis, 96.
Alcinous, 9, 11.
Alice in Wonderland quoted, 132; In the looking-glass, 192.
Allen, Ethan, quoted, 303.
Allen, Grant, quoted, 212.
Alumni, Society of Collegiate, 232, 235.
American love of home, 281.
Ampere, J. J., 248.
Andersen, H. C., 265.
Andrew, J. A., 38.
Anglomania, 22.
Aphrodite, 2.
Apollo, Phoebus, 44, 47.
Appleton, T. G., 22.
Arab festivals, 226.
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 130.
Also 133, 140, 248.
Artemis, 2.
Aryan race, traditions of the, 46.
Astell, Mary, quoted, 89.
Athena, 45.
Audrey, 102.
Auerbach, Berthold, quoted, 14.
aunts, maiden, 38.
Austen, Jane, quoted, 113.
Also 156, 157, 160, 194.
Authorship, difficulties of, 151, 202.
B.
Babi