The Archive · 1899

LITERATURE

asa palea for women, and its influence th life was much discussed. Mis. Fenwick Miller read a long paper which went to prove that if a woman it for writing it was unfair and ble to expect her to abandon it timony, as the result rebably be that she would elect ingle, and she the it it would mate if the strength of will and ability that made " success ul professional woman were not euried into motherhood and made to benefit the next. generation, Mrs. Bedford Fenwick followed and took the opposite side that intellectual force was a strangely illusive quality; it had yet to be proved that it possible. to ate it through prearranged physical unions and she advised women not to sacrifice the substance for the shadow: the substance being a happy home life and care of the children The discussion of

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