The woman question

The Chimney Corner, Chapter 1.

What Will You Do with Her? Or The Woman Question.

Well, what will you do with her? said I to my wife.

My wife had just come down from an interview with a pale, faded-looking young woman in rusty black attire, who had called upon me on the very common supposition that I was an editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

On this question of women's work I have yet more to say, but must defer it till another time.

End of chapter one.

What will you do with her? Or the woman question.

Chapter two, part one of The Chimney Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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The New Aspect of the Woman Question by Sarah Grand.

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It is amusing as well as interesting To note the pause which the new aspect of the woman question has given to the bawling brothers who have hitherto tried to howl down every attempt on the part of our sex to make the world a pleasanter place to live in.

That woman should ape man and desire to change places with him was conceivable to him as he stood on the hearth rug in his lord and master monarch of all I survey attitude, well inflated with his own conceit.

But that she should be content to develop the good material which she finds in herself and be only dissatisfied with the poor quality of that which is being offered to her in man, her mate, must appear to him to be a thing as monstrous as it is unaccountable.

The Chimney Corner, Chapter 1.

What Will You Do with Her? Or The Woman Question Well, what will you do with her? said I to my wife.

My wife had just come down from an interview with a pale, faded-looking young woman in rusty black attire, who had called upon me on the very common supposition that I was an editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

By the by, this is a mistake that brings me, Christopher Crowfield, many letters that do not belong to me, and which might with equal pertinency be addressed to the man in the moon.

On this question of women's work I have yet more to say, but must defer it till another time.

End of chapter one.

What will you do with her, or the woman question? Chapter two, part one of The Chimney Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Selected lead articles from The Dawn by Louisa Lawson Section 5 The Man Question or the Woman Question Restated The Dawn Volume 2, Number 5 Sydney, September 2, 1889 Woman as a topic for male journalistic pens has been popular ever since the infancy of literature.

The little feminine vanities and vagaries have formed a delightful nucleus for descriptive and imaginative literary work in leaders, paragraphs, poems, plays, and essays.

Now and then, exceptional tidal waves of controversy occur when marriage, woman's suffrage, or similar subjects attract and swell the billows of printing ink, but these subside, and the permanent currents of the literary ocean carry always the same kind of debris, disquisitions on woman, her weakness, inconstancy, vanity, and little failings innumerable.