 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 534 halaman
...even if she had already made a bargain with the publisher, to break it ; for he held that a woman had no business to be a public character, and that in...proportion as she acquires notoriety she loses delicacy ; " he " always considering a female author as a sort of half-man." It was this feeling in the moral... | |
 | Max Rentsch - 1902 - 176 halaman
...of autlioress is not an enviable one" 3). Desgleichen aus dem Briefe vom 18. März desselben Jahres: „I hold that a woman has no business to be a public character, and that in proportion äs she aquires notoriety, she loses delicacy. I always consider a female author äs a sort of half-man1).... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 halaman
...adherents " envy, slander and malignity." He finally expresses his opinion that it is not a woman's " business to be a public character and that in proportion as she acquires notority she loses delicacy " — a sign of the times that indicates the value set on women authors... | |
 | David Lorne Macdonald - 2000 - 340 halaman
...referred repeatedly to the family shame and dissension it would cause, and added a further reason: 'I hold, that a Woman has no business to be a public character, and that in the proportion that She acquires notoriety, She loses delicacy: I always consider a female Author as... | |
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... remember the London tone of 1825 on this subject. It was the echo of twenty years before, when Matt Lewis took his mother to task for writing a novel, enjoining on her " whatever might be its merits, even if she had already made a bargain with the... 