Flossie

unknown (1872) Flossie. The London Reader, 18 (453). pp. 236-238.

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Abstract

"'I am glad you have chosen a work which is so womanly as teaching.' 'I don't think woman's work is limited except by her capacity. I am going to write and lecture when my mind ripens a little more.' I remember Frederic De Wint's look; it was more than his words. Yet they were angry enough. He said something to the effect that women with such sentiments were a grosser sham than Homer's Syrens, for these lured the body only to destruction; but women who wanted a public sphere, and still allowed themselves to be wooed as wives, stabbed the very soul of domestic happiness." [Illustration on p.236]

Item Type:	Article
Categories:	1 Genre > 1.12 Fiction 1 Genre > 1.12 Fiction > 1.12.1 Realism 2 Content > 2.4 Education 2 Content > 2.6 Emancipation/Feminism 2 Content > 2.7 Family/Marriage 2 Content > 2.12 Morals/Values/Virtues 2 Content > 2.17 Relationships 2 Content > 2.21 Suffragism/Women's Rights 3 Context > 3.5 Lecture 4 Form of Participation > 4.2 Speaker 5 Textualisation of Lecture > 5.4 Mentioned without Title
Number of Pages:	3
URI:	http://victorianlecturing.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/2250

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