. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. me capable of something better thanthe poor fluttering moth that I seem to be. It is noteworthy that the Little Woman first reachedthe conviction that they could never marry. Usuallyinsight and foresight are attributed to man. He is wis-dom. Woman is love. But love is wisdom also whenlodged in the heart of a Dame Durden. By combiningwisdom and love, Dickens made her one of the ador-able women of fiction—and it was lovingly complimen-tary in Riley to give his sweetheart the name: My Little Woman, of you I
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. me capable of something better thanthe poor fluttering moth that I seem to be. It is noteworthy that the Little Woman first reachedthe conviction that they could never marry. Usuallyinsight and foresight are attributed to man. He is wis-dom. Woman is love. But love is wisdom also whenlodged in the heart of a Dame Durden. By combiningwisdom and love, Dickens made her one of the ador-able women of fiction—and it was lovingly complimen-tary in Riley to give his sweetheart the name: My Little Woman, of you I singWith a fervor all divine. It was said at the beginning of the chapter, thatRiley was in love with an ideal. It may now be saidthat there was an uncommon measure of the ideal inthe Golden Girl, and that her influence like an angelicpresence remained with the poet through the ten pro-lific years that succeeded their correspondence—thedecade that saw the light dawn on his best work. Do you suppose I would spoil my ideal by gettingmarried? The remark is attributed to Frances Wil-. Her Beautiful HandFrom a tintype taken when the Golden Girl was for the poem : Her Beautiful Hands
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