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" ... too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on... "
Jane Eyre - Page 109
by Charlotte Brontė - 1890 - 464 pages
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Volume 1

Charlotte Brontė - 1850 - 336 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...sex. When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Poolers laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha! which, when first heard, had thrilled me:...
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontė - English fiction - 1850 - 500 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. p b le earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally ; When thus alone, I not unfrequehtly heard...
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The world and his wife; or, A person of consequence, Volume 180

baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1858 - 1052 pages
...themselves to making puddings, and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano, or embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." JANE ETBB, Page 109. iSfjf-^S they neared the hall-door, poor Mary's tears (ppl|{| again became uncontrollable,...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 9

English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them if they...sex. When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Pople's laugh: the same — the same peal, the same low, slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had...
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontė - 1864 - 506 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same — the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha ! which, when first heard, had thrilled me ; I heard,...
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Life and works of Charlotte Brontė and her sisters, Volume 1

Charlotte Brontė - 1872 - 520 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...slow ha ! ha ! which; when first heard, had thrilled me : I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs ; stranger than her laugh. There were days when she was quite...
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Education, Volume 5

Education - 1885 - 696 pages
...suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is thoughtless to condemn them or laugh at them, if they...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." The final test of this question of occupations for educated women is met squarely in the case of a...
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Two Great Englishwomen, Mrs. Browning & Charlott Brontė: With an Essay on ...

Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...Fairfax, frequently walked in meditative mood in the weird corridor. " When thus alone," she says, "I not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh : the...slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had thrilled me : I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs, stranger than her laugh. Sometimes I saw her : she would...
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An Hour with Charlotte Bronté: Or, Flowers from a Yorkshire Moor

Charlotte Brontė, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them if they...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed ; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontė - 1885 - 410 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...Poole's laugh ; the same peal, the same low, slow ha I ha 1 which, when first heard, had thrilled me ; I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs ; stranger than...
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