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    394 THE OTFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL LITERATXJ...

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    si emp gnifies irewhile it , " she his continues heart is , still " that devotedl Ms reason theirs disputes ?" ¦ with _thenx for .

    What , signifies it ? It signifies a great y deal . It signifies all the difference "between life in a solitary lio and life with God's

    world for an inheritance ; all the difference serag between the butterfly and the serapkbetween the imprisoned nun and Longfellow ' s

    sweet St . Philomel , . "When we read these words we thank Margaret Fuller for the very criticism which once moved a girlish ire . ** De

    Stael ' s name , " she wrote , " was not clear of offence , she could not forget the woman in the thought . Sentimental tears often dimmed

    her eagle glance . " What a grateful contrast to all such sentimentalism do we fbid in Margaret's own sketch of the early life of

    Miranda . " This child was early led to feel herself a child of the spirit .

    of She self took -dependence her place was easil g y iven in the as world all her of portion mind . , and A di she gnified found sense it a

    sure anchor . Her relations with others were _^ Ked with equal security . With both men and women they were noble affectionate

    without passion , intellectual without coldness . The world ; was free to her , and she lived freelin it . Outward adversity cameand inward

    conflict , but that self y -respect had early been awakened , , which must always lead at last to an outward security and an inward peace . "

    Here is the great difficulty in the education of woman , to lead her to a point from which she shall naturally develope self-respect , and

    learn self-help . Old prejudices extinguish her individually , oblige her to renounce the inspiration in herself , and yield to all the

    weaknesses and wickednesses of man . Look at Chaucer ' s beau-ideal of a wife in the tale of Griselda , dwindled now into the patient Grissel

    of modern story . In her a woman is represented as perfect , because and guile she see ardentl , and if brutall y and would y constantl abused respect her y such loved . Put a a woman the monster matt now er who ? into No gained plain : and Eng her there lish by

    you fore is it somewhat sad , that in Tennyson ' s new Idyll , he must recreate this ideal in the Enid of Geraint , and that out of four pictures

    position guilt of womanl y love of y woman of lo Guinevere ve onl is y flooding one . seems The the recentl human country y and with awakened natural books interest , relating and that in to , her the the

    cational and her influence sphere . . They Let have me direct , their very attention titles have to , an one immense published edu in > your

    Women this city of by Different a leading A house and last Nations winter . " , and Let entitled us read " the Remarkable names of ges

    the thirteen women with whose lives it seeks to entertain the public . - Beatrice Cencithe parricide . :

    Charlotte Corday , , the assassin . Joanna Southcote , the English prophetess .

    Jemima Wilkinson , the American prophetess . ; Madame Ursinus , the , poisoner .

    ; .. Madame Gottfried , the poisoner .

    394 The Otfluence Of Classical Literatxj...

    394 THE _OTFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL _LITERATXJHEJ

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/34/