. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . faithful assistant, in thischaracter receiving a salary from the king. In addi-tion she found time to make her own independentobservations, discovering comets, remarkable nebulae,and clusters of stars, and receiving from the RoyalSociety a gold medal in recognition of her work. Charlotte Brontes portion in life was pain and toiland sorrow. Her experience was a long struggle withevery unkindness of fate, and she lacked every advan-tage supposed necessary to literary work. Her forceof character and undis
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . faithful assistant, in thischaracter receiving a salary from the king. In addi-tion she found time to make her own independentobservations, discovering comets, remarkable nebulae,and clusters of stars, and receiving from the RoyalSociety a gold medal in recognition of her work. Charlotte Brontes portion in life was pain and toiland sorrow. Her experience was a long struggle withevery unkindness of fate, and she lacked every advan-tage supposed necessary to literary work. Her forceof character and undismayed persistence triumphedover all hindrances. She put heart and conscienceinto books that held the literary world in them she rent the shams of society by her keenanalyses. She depicted life as she had known it,shorn of every illusion, and then beautified it by un-flinching loyalty to duty, and unwavering fidelity toconscience. The publication of Jane Eyre markedan era in the literary world not soon to be forgotten. mimiiMimi ^^ iitm»» 4^ ♦ .♦ ^ BELVA ANN FIRST WOMAN LAWYER BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. OR heroic perseverance, streno;th of intellect, dignity and power ofmind, logic and eloquence,—and withal true womanliness of character,the sisterhood of the world perhaps could present no counterpart inany single woman, of any age, to Belva A. Lockwood. Had shedevoted her life to literature the profoundness of her writings musthave impressed the world. The fragments of her speeches whichre:nain ar^ worthy to live. She has had one idea in life—to enfranchise woman—and while earning her living in a profession, for recognition in which she hatl tofight and conquer the United States, she has, from every advanced step, held backthe helping hand to her more timid sisters. If her ideal is ever realized, she willlive in futur^i history as one of the emancipators and greatest benefactors of her Ann Bennett was born in Ni
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