Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . nly a new movement in labor, but thebeginning of a new epoch for woman,in which her work and wages were des-tined to take coherent shape and all industrial progress since thattime women have taken an active partwhile receiving a meagre share of thepn iduct. Forced by the course of eventst
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . nly a new movement in labor, but thebeginning of a new epoch for woman,in which her work and wages were des-tined to take coherent shape and all industrial progress since thattime women have taken an active partwhile receiving a meagre share of thepn iduct. Forced by the course of eventsto emerge from seclusion and repres-sion, she has passed from one stage ofdevelopment to another, always a stepor two behind man in the progressof social evolution, till the close ofthe nineteenth century reveals myriad changes and the actual realization of Tennysons prophetic•Princess,* We have prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. One hundred years ago it was the duty of a woman to efface herself. Shewas expected to make of herself a mental blank-book upon which her hus-band might inscribe what he would. Thus it is only lately that women havebegun actively to compete with men in expression of any kind. Indeed, pre-vious to that time, with a few notable exceptions, they were denied recog-. GEORGE ELIOT. the 122 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY nition of individual life. The woman, if unmarried, was merged in thefamily, or, if married, merged in the husband. Her name, her religion, hergods, were changed on marriage. But, married or single, the absorptionwas complete. So it has happened that woman, throbbing with poetic sym-pathy, has, with the exception of Sappho, produced less high and unmis-takable poetry than man. With more harmony, more music in her nature,her very soul attuned to symphony and rhythm, she has been little knownas a composer. With far vision and clear literary insight, she has beensuppressed in art and literature. George Eliot gave her sublime li
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