[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link book
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
44/268

And Louis Napoleon, who is wise, _foresees_, I cannot doubt.
Not read Mrs.Stowe's book! But you _must_.

Her book is quite a sign of the times and has otherwise and intrinsically considerable power.

For myself, I rejoice in the success, both as a woman and a human being.

Oh, and is it possible that you think a woman has no business with questions like the question of slavery?
Then she had better use a pen no more.
She had better subside into slavery and concubinage herself, I think, as in the times of old, shut herself up with the Penelopes in the 'women's apartment,' and take no rank among thinkers and speakers.

Certainly you are not in earnest in these things.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books