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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 23 (search)
enience at the end of the year, and deposit the undivided profits to his own private credit in the bank. Marriage is something more than a co-partnership, but it is nothing less; it is governed by higher laws, but by no lower. Fortunately the business knowledge of women is steadily increasing, and with it their capacity to deal with money. If a woman, by art or authorship or bookkeeping, has earned a thousand dollars a year before marriage-and such instances are now common — it is absurd to ask her, after marriage, to work harder in her household than before, and yet handle less money, while her husband handles plenty. It is not a question of economy where economy is needed; women are quite as ready as men to accept the necessity of that. It is a question between sharing and what is called giving; a question between justice and the traditional inquiry addressed by a certain Quaker to his wife, in a certain city, Rachel, where is that nine-pence I gave thee day before yesterday?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 49 (search)
rge Eliot it had not seemed possible that a woman could be a great novelist, or up to the time of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that she could be a great poet, or up to the time of Rosa Bonheur a great painter, or up to the days of Mrs. Siddons and Rachel a great actor, or until Mrs. Somerville's day a great scientific writer. Even to the present time, for some reason, the corresponding figure among musical composers has not appeared, and any speculations on this point may have a certain value. st in the current educational advantages of all kinds. Among the eminent women above enumerated as pioneers in other intellectual spheres not one was German; we do not know that George Sand, or George Eliot, or Mrs. Browning, or Rosa Bonheur, or Rachel, or Mrs. Somerville, would ever have raised her head above the surrounding obstacles had she had the ill-luck to be born near the Rhine. Even in France there is no Salique Law in intellect; compare, for instance, the five ample volumes of Histoi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
rovidence of a, 188. Phillips, Wendell, 284, 309. Pike, Owen, quoted, 212, 213. Pinart, Mrs., Nuttall, 286. Pisani, Catherine de, 86. Plato cited, 178. Plea for the uncommonplace, A, 192. Poe, E. A., 289. Pontius cum Judaeis, 256. Porter, Jane, 157. Precieuses, the, 87. Presidency in United States, 128. Prince Hal, 49. publisher, the search after A, 151. Punch and Judy, the brutality of, 254. Purse, the independent, 115. Q. Quite rustic, 100. R. Rachel, 250, 252, 263. Radcliffe, Ann, 160. Rambouillet, Marquis de, 86. Ramona, influence of, 236. Rank in England, 126. Recamier, Madame, 76, 77. Relationship to one's mother, on one's, 43. return to the hills, A, 301. Richardson, Samuel, 11. Richelieu, Cardinal, 87. Robespierre, F. J. M. I., 6. Rochejaquelein, Baroness de la, 56. Rochester, Lord, 5. Rogers, Professor W. B., 96, 287. Roland, Madame, 236. Romola, 260. Routledge, George, 18, 19. Royalty, childishness