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... Refusal of the vote has given impetus to revolutionary enthusiasm— Thin end of the wedge - Ingenuity of women- A working woman and the hospital official's chivalry - Thirty - two million workers , half - million independent means , two ...
... Refusal of the vote has given impetus to revolutionary enthusiasm— Thin end of the wedge - Ingenuity of women- A working woman and the hospital official's chivalry - Thirty - two million workers , half - million independent means , two ...
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... refused , the first artillery for the woman's army was forged . That little request for the vote might have been granted three years ago without making any more dif- ference than the borough council vote here , or the parliamentary vote ...
... refused , the first artillery for the woman's army was forged . That little request for the vote might have been granted three years ago without making any more dif- ference than the borough council vote here , or the parliamentary vote ...
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... refuse who pick up a living any way they can , in ways too horrible to think of , by the practice of vulgar indecency . All these incomes which are earned by women , either by their tenderness and charm or by their bestiality , are ...
... refuse who pick up a living any way they can , in ways too horrible to think of , by the practice of vulgar indecency . All these incomes which are earned by women , either by their tenderness and charm or by their bestiality , are ...
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... refuse to alter the divorce laws really do believe in the sacrament of the marriage ceremony , instead of in the sacra- ment of the true love , which abides when there is a real compatibility of temperament . IV THE SORDID DIVORCE IV ...
... refuse to alter the divorce laws really do believe in the sacrament of the marriage ceremony , instead of in the sacra- ment of the true love , which abides when there is a real compatibility of temperament . IV THE SORDID DIVORCE IV ...
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... refuses divorce altogether on the ground that the blessing of the Church makes the contract binding till death . Parents with children are generally prepared to endure each other for the sake of their family . While women are ...
... refuses divorce altogether on the ground that the blessing of the Church makes the contract binding till death . Parents with children are generally prepared to endure each other for the sake of their family . While women are ...
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admit adultery affairs amusement average beauty become better brought called catarrh century cern chapter charm chivalry civilization contempt courtesans cultivated dance danger disease Don Juan economic independence experiments facts feel feminine FLEET STREET FRANK PALMER girl Goethe GREEN HOUSES heiresses hope housekeeper HOUSES OF JAPAN husband imaginative power imaginative woman independent income instinct intellect Jews kind lady live look Louis XIV marriage married matriarchal means ment million motherhood mothers Murby never ourselves parents passion philo practise present prostitutes protest prudence question race RED LION COURT refuse SAVAGE Second Empire Semite sensation servant Sex and Character sexual SEXUAL ETHICS side social reform society sophic SORDID STANFORD UNIVERSITY suffer suffragist talk temper Teresa of Spain tion torpid consciousness trade union truth unmarried VARIATIONS OF LOVE virile vital vote Weiningen's wife wives Wolstone women Wrapper
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Page 88 - Farr as one of the deftest that has been wielded in the style of to-day. She has written the cleverest and the most cynical sensation story of the season.
Page 88 - Full of bright paradox, and paradox which is no mere topsy-turvy play upon words, but the product of serious thinking upon life. One of the cleverest of recent novels.' — Star. * It is full of epigrammatic effects, and it has a certain thread of pathos calculated to win our sympathy.
Page 31 - This is, of course, not true of young lovers. Every first love is born free of tradition ; indeed, not only is first love innocent and valiant, but it sweeps aside all the wise laws it has been taught, and burns away experience in its own light. The revelation is so extraordinary, so unlike anything told by...
Page 7 - ... Indian patriarchy was harmful, while to traditional Hindu males, it was a godsend. No wonder, therefore, that the white goddess found her place in Indian society and that a suburb of Madras is named Besant Nagar. 9 S FROM LONDON'S WEST END TO JAFFNA Florence Fair as George Bernard Shaws "New Woman" This is to be the Woman's Century.
Page 63 - I do not think that we shall ever get mankind to carry out the eugenic ideal of careful breeding, but I do think we might come to a time when the natural instinct of a woman for the fit father of her child will be a very important factor in the arrangements made for .the existence and benefit of future generations.
Page 2 - Another fire has come into the harp, Fire from beyond the world, and wakens it : It has begun to cry out to the eagles ! WB YEATS, Second version of " Shadowy Waters
Page 8 - Scriptures. The Christian religion brought us that curse cowering behind its gospel of glad tidings ; and it is most remarkable to trace the way in which the Jews' religion crept into Europe under the cloak of Christianity.
Page 55 - Passion served up with cold sauce as in the Shaw-Barker school of sex revolts them.
Page 27 - It would make love marriages possible. It is almost certain that a love marriage on the woman's side is one of the most important elements for good in the production of a fine race.
Page 80 - Weiningen's book they will find, set out at length, the ingenious theory that virile men and feminine women are the rarest creatures on earth, and that the great majority of us are made up of various proportions of the two sexes.