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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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y her skill in character-paintingset the fashion for pen-portraits which becamea mania a few years later. She depicts herself as Sappho, whose opin-ions may be supposed to reflect her own. Inthese days, when the position of women isdiscussed from every possible point of view, itmay be rather interesting to know how it wasregarded by one who represented the thought-ful side of the age in which their social powerwas first distinctly asserted. It is clear thatthe old types have not all died out. Sheclasses her critics and enemies under severalheads. Among them are the light and co-quettish women whose only occupation is toadorn their persons and pass their lives infetes and amusements — women who thinkthat scrupulous virtue requires them to knownothing but to be the wife of a husband, themother of children, and the mistress of a fam-ily; and men who regard women as upperservants, and forbid their daughters to readanything but their prayer-books. One does not wish women to be coquettes,
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FRANCOISE DAUBIGNE, MARQUISE DE MAINTENON, WIFE OF LOUIS XIV.(FROM A PAINTING BY MIGNARD.) she writes again, but permits them to learncarefully all that fits them for gallantry, with-out teaching them anything which can fortifytheir virtue or occupy their minds. They de-vote ten or a dozen years to learning to appearwell, to dress in good style, to dance and sing,for five or six; but this same person, who re-quires judgment all her life and must talkuntil her last sigh, learns nothing which canmake her converse more agreeably, or actwith more wisdom. But she does not like &femme savante, andridicules, under the name of Damophile, acharacter which might have been the modelfor Molieres Philaminte. This woman hasfive or six masters, of whom the least learnedteaches astrology. She poses as a Muse, andis always surrounded with books, pencils, andmathematical instruments, while she uses largewords in a grave and imperious tone, althoughshe speaks only of little things. After manylong co

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