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    3SHE INFIiTJIiNCE OF CLASSICAL LITERATUR...

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    - _Madeiaoiselle Clairon , the actress . Harriet _Mellontlie actress

    i Madame Lenormand , , tlie fortune _, -teller . Angelieo Kauffmantlie artist .

    , Mary Baker , the impostor * Pope Joan , the pontiff .

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    of no fole lives p not known , at alllike the women of the House of Montefeltroor little knownlike , the and heroic wife of Conde

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    Andrea del Sarto who gre loved a faithless , wife , into the same category , . The association , although false , helps to educate the popular and mind civili .

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    birth of sons , and to leave lifctle room in their happy or ambitious schemes for the , coming of a daughter . " Not lon smote g since him , a hi to ghl the y

    heart educa . ted " E I never lishman expected told to me have , that anything this remark had but made a son , " he declared ,

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    there second and fill is . public ' going Our , son offices an s d , " make . they We them say mu , " st as will hel sharp have p them -witted to to whatever as their in political fact neig knowle hbours g dge .

    church nothing As for our and . We d dancing aug g hters ive them scliool , they to can and their never with mothers the foe aid anything , wlio of fine will , clothes take , them they fit them are to

    , out for the market . " no " man But , has " she a ri goes ht to on calculate to say , " on let them _possibilities for his sons be . what He they has will only ,

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    _3 SHE _INFIiTJIiNCE OF _CLASSICAL _LITERATURE . 395

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/35/