In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed ofworks written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000volumes. We will not hazard any conjecture as to the proportion of these volumes which asevere judge, like the priest in Don Quixote, would deliver to the flames, but for our ownpart, most of these we should care to rescue would be the works of French women. With afew remarkable exceptions, our own feminine literature is made up of books which ...
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In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed ofworks written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000volumes. We will not hazard any conjecture as to the proportion of these volumes which asevere judge, like the priest in Don Quixote, would deliver to the flames, but for our ownpart, most of these we should care to rescue would be the works of French women. With afew remarkable exceptions, our own feminine literature is made up of books which couldhave been better written by men-books which have the same relation to literature isgeneral, as academic prize poems have to poetry: when not a feeble imitation, they areusually an absurd exaggeration of the masculine style, like the swaggering gait of a badactress in male attire. Few English women have written so much like a woman asRichardson's Lady G. Now we think it an immense mistake to maintain that there is no sexin literature. Science has no sex: the mere knowing and reasoning faculties, if they actcorrectly, must go through the same process, and arrive at the same result. But in art andliterature, which imply the action of the entire being, in which every fibre of the nature isengaged, in which every peculiar modification of the individual makes itself felt, womanhas something specific to contribute. Under every imaginable social condition, she willnecessarily have a class of sensations and emotions-the maternal ones-which mustremain unknown to man; and the fact of her comparative physical weakness, which, however it may have been exaggerated by a vicious civilization, can never be cancelled, introduces a distinctively feminine condition into the wondrous chemistry of the affectionsand sentiments, which inevitably gives rise to distinctive forms and combinations. Acertain amount of psychological difference between man and woman necessarily arises outof the difference of sex, and instead of being destined to vanish before a completedevelopment of woman's intellectual and moral nature, will be a permanent source ofvariety and beauty as long as the tender light and dewy freshness of morning affect usdifferently from the strength and brilliancy of the midday su
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