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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 56 (search)
ays used to place a crown of the most perishable materials on the head of every woman who flattered them or whom they wished to flatter. Apart from their tributes, a place on Parnassus was supposed to be securely held by the Davidson sisters, for instance, two half-developed girls, who earned by their pathetic early deaths what really passed for fame. It is doubtful whether a place more permanent can be assigned to the good-natured Cary sisters. A greater loss to memory is the fame of Miss Sedgwick, whose graphic and sensible fiction-realistic in the best sense-seems absolutely unknown to the generation now growing up. Is it so certain that the women now popular as poets and novelists are securer in their position than their predecessors? There are really but two grounds of permanence in literature — that won by positive genius and that won by labor. Where both are united, a book may stand by itself, like Gibbon's Roman Empire, and prove solid and indestructible as the Pyramids
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
cations for, 33. Salem sea-captains, youthfulness of, 247. Sales-ladies, 172. Salisbury, Lord, 136. Salmon, L. M., 287. Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A. Sanitary Commission, the, 235. Santa Claus agencies, 269. Sappho, 262. Sapsea, Thomas, 94. Schlemihl, Peter, 12. Scott, Sir, Walter, quoted 55. Also 19,157,194. Scudery, Charles de, 15. Scudery, Magdalen de, quoted, 15, 87, 159. search after A publisher, the, 151. secret of the birthday, 176. Sedgwick, C. M., 289. Seward, Anna, 113, 114. shadow of the harem, the, 12. Shakespeare, William, quoted, 56,91, 177, 178, 239. Also 19, 32, 49, 55, 102, 103, 108, 262. Shelley, P. B., 19. shy graces, the, 306. sick, on visiting the, 227. Siddons, Sarah, 250. Simms, W. G., 223. single will, the, 90. Sisters of Charity, 69. Size, physical, gradual diminution of, 262. Smith College, 275. social pendulum, the swing of the, 22. social superiors, 171. Society, origin of its