Category: History - American
In shorter form “The New England Woman” appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, and under other title and form “Up-to-Date Misogyny” and “Plagiarizing Humors of Benjamin Franklin” in _The Bookman_, which periodicals have courteously allowed republication
“The 28th of March, Anno Dom. 1708,” it begins, “being the night this sham prophet had so impudently fixed for my last, which made little impression on myself: but I cannot answ...
4. Part 4This woman is fair and seemly. When you look upon her you think how full of strength and well-knit is her body. You foresee her the mother of strong and supple children. She is...
3. Part 3With clear, far-seeing eyes--for plenty of oxygen has saved them from near-sightedness--a Hesperus boy will distinguish the species of hawk flying yonder in the sky, forming his...
8. Part 8The cook-book is not a modern product. The Iliad is the hungriest book on earth, and it is the first of our cook-books aside from half-sacred, half-sanitary directions to the ea...
2. Part 2Seeds of the convictions which admitted women to instruction had long been germinating, even before the independence of women was practically denied by the great Reformation. Th...
7. Part 7And yet, although their habitations are fallen, they--such men and women as they--still live. Their hearts, hands, and heads are in all institutions of ours that are free. A gre...
10. Part 10In their larger discourse, then, up-to-date household books stand for the very essence of democracy and human-heartedness--which is also the very essence of aristocracy. After t...
1. Part 1In shorter form “The New England Woman” appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, and under other title and form “Up-to-Date Misogyny” and “Plagiarizing Humors of Benjamin Franklin” i...
5. Part 5Possibly with the great Middle West and its infinite “go,” optimism, and constructive breadth, and with such men and women as these types by the Big Muddy, the preservation of A...
9. Part 9Still one more tale bearing upon a member of the clergy who would set out more “blackburdes” than “tharchbishop” is told by Holinshed. It has within it somewhat of the flavor of...
6. Part 6This idealism oftenest takes religious phases--as in its Puritan origin--and in many instances in our day is content with crude expression. Of foregone days evidence is in an in...
12. Part 12“‘You will wonder, perhaps, how this paper comes written on your table. You must know that no separate spirits are under any confinement till after the final settlement of all a...