Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . tness. Most ofthem arc able speakers and writers, as their published 4:04 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE. speeches, letters, novels, and poems fully show; those whohave seen them in social life can testify that they are goodhouse-keepers, true mothers, and faithful wives. I haveknown women in many countries and classes of society, andI know none more noble, delicate, and refined, in wordand action, than those I have met on the womans rightsplatform. True, they do not possess the
Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . tness. Most ofthem arc able speakers and writers, as their published 4:04 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE. speeches, letters, novels, and poems fully show; those whohave seen them in social life can testify that they are goodhouse-keepers, true mothers, and faithful wives. I haveknown women in many countries and classes of society, andI know none more noble, delicate, and refined, in wordand action, than those I have met on the womans rightsplatform. True, they do not possess the voluptuous graceand soft manners of the petted children of luxury; theyare not clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sump-tuously every day,—for most of them are self-made women,who, through hardships and sacrifice, have smoothedthe rugged paths for multitudes about them, and earned avirtuous independence for themselves. All praise to those,who, through ridicule and scorn, have changed the barbarouslaws for woman in many of the States, and brought them intoharmony with the hfigher civilization in which we
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