. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . still in chains. A month or two later, and a correspondent—Mr. H. W. Strong,of Newcastle—induces him to a fresh pronouncement on the questionof femininism in a letter from which this is a quotation : Since I began to reflect I have been oppressed by the injusticedone to women, the constraint put upon their natural aptitudes andtheir faculties, generally much to the degradation of the race. Ihave not studied them more closely than I have men, but with moreaffection, a deeper interest in their enfranchisement and development,being assured that women
. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . still in chains. A month or two later, and a correspondent—Mr. H. W. Strong,of Newcastle—induces him to a fresh pronouncement on the questionof femininism in a letter from which this is a quotation : Since I began to reflect I have been oppressed by the injusticedone to women, the constraint put upon their natural aptitudes andtheir faculties, generally much to the degradation of the race. Ihave not studied them more closely than I have men, but with moreaffection, a deeper interest in their enfranchisement and development,being assured that women of the independent mind are needed forany sensible degree of progress. They will so educate their daughtersthat these will not be instructed at the start to think themselvesnaturally inferior to men because less muscular, and need not haverecourse to particular arts, feline chiefly, to make their way in theworld. In the same letter the novelist adds that he has no special choiceamong the women of his books. Perhaps, he says, I gave more. George Mekeuith cakkhcd io ihic Tominc; IJooih at Leatherhead,January 26, 1906 Conveyed the three-and-a-half mile^^ liom Ilox Hill to , in liis little donkey-chaise,the venerable novelist recorded his vole against what he called the curse ol Protection. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS 83 colour to Diana of the Crossways and Clara Middleton of theEgoist, and this on account of their position. Next comes the Fiscal Question and a scathing criticism of itsgreat protagonist, in which Meredith asks us to observe in lean, long head and adventurous nose, a man whois from time to time possessed of one idea and advances it withtremendous energy. He will have none of his Protection : it wouldbe a demented country that believed him. If the journalistic advo-cates of tariff reform had been able to lay hands on certain veryanti-Cobdenite sentiments which appeared in the editorial columns ofthe Ipswich Journal somewhere about i860 t
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