Modern Women and What is Said of Them Modern Women and What is Said of Them

Modern Women and What is Said of Them

Publisher Description

Time was when the stereotyped phrase, "a fair young English girl", meant the ideal of womanhood; to us, at least, of home birth and breeding. It meant a creature generous, capable, and modest; something franker than a Frenchwoman, more to be trusted than an Italian, as brave as an American, but more refined, as domestic as a German and more graceful. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need be, because of the innate purity and dignity of her nature, but who was neither bold in bearing nor masculine in mind; a girl who, when she married, would be her husband's friend and companion, but never his rival; one who would consider their interests identical, and not hold him as just so much fair game for spoil; who would make his house his true home and place of rest, not a mere passage-place for vanity and ostentation to go through; a tender mother, an industrious house-keeper, a judicious mistress.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
1898
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
377
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
264.5
KB

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