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Excerpt from Revolted Woman: Past, Present, and to Come
Humanity is condemned oy tae First Woman's disooedience to earn a precarious liveli/zood oy tae sweat of its orow. All tae toil and trouole of t/zis worn-a-day world proceed from ner sex; and yet tlte cant of Woman's Mission fills t/ie air, and Me New Woman is promised was some sort of a fiedagogue wno snall teac/t tae c/zild-man' liaw to toddle in tae fiatns of virtue and content. How aosurd it all is, waen t/ze women write tnese' tnings pander to tne depraved palate wliic/i gained Holy/well Street a living and an unenviaole notoriety years ago w/zen taey oltain taree-fourtns of tneir readers from t/zeir fellow-women w/io read tneir productions nopeful of indecency, and conceive taem selves cneated if tliey do not find it. Let us, nowever, do tnese women writers, or 'literary Ladies,' as taey nave labelled tnemselves - maigarine masquerading as oest fres/i tae justice to ac knowledge taat taey do not aalt lialf-way on tlie road to viciousness, tno'uglt to: reacn t/zeir goal taey wade knee-deep in aoominations. Here, indeed, taey are no eneats, and it remains t/ze unli/eeliest seguel taat you close tneir pages and yet do not find Holywell' Street outdone.
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Excerpt from Revolted Woman: Past, Present, and to Come
Humanity is condemned oy tae First Woman's disooedience to earn a precarious liveli/zood oy tae sweat of its orow. All tae toil and trouole of t/zis worn-a-day world proceed from ner sex; and yet tlte cant of Woman's Mission fills t/ie air, and Me New Woman is promised was some sort of a fiedagogue wno snall teac/t tae c/zild-man' liaw to toddle in tae fiatns of virtue and content. How aosurd it all is, waen t/ze women write tnese' tnings pander to tne depraved palate wliic/i gained Holy/well Street a living and an unenviaole notoriety years ago w/zen taey oltain taree-fourtns of tneir readers from t/zeir fellow-women w/io read tneir productions nopeful of indecency, and conceive taem selves cneated if tliey do not find it. Let us, nowever, do tnese women writers, or 'literary Ladies,' as taey nave labelled tnemselves - maigarine masquerading as oest fres/i tae justice to ac knowledge taat taey do not aalt lialf-way on tlie road to viciousness, tno'uglt to: reacn t/zeir goal taey wade knee-deep in aoominations. Here, indeed, taey are no eneats, and it remains t/ze unli/eeliest seguel taat you close tneir pages and yet do not find Holywell' Street outdone.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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