item: #1 of 15 id: 12044 author: Birney, Catherine H. title: The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights date: None words: 95623 flesch: 68 summary: The appeal is made chiefly to woman's tenderest and holiest feelings, but enough is said of her rights to show whither Angelina's own reflections were leading her, and it must have turned the thoughts of many other women in the same direction. Neither Sarah nor Angelina had any idea of starting such a revolution, but when they found it fairly inaugurated, and that many women had long privately held the same views as they did and were ready to follow in their lead, they bravely accepted, and to the end of their lives as bravely sustained all the responsibilities their opinions involved. keywords: angelina; brother; cause; charleston; children; christian; church; day; dear; duty; family; father; feelings; friends; god; good; grimké; heart; home; house; letter; life; lord; love; meeting; men; mind; mother; new; people; philadelphia; place; public; question; read; right; sarah; sister; slavery; slaves; society; soul; spirit; state; subject; suffering; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; views; way; weld; woman; words; work; years cache: 12044.txt plain text: 12044.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 13105 author: Fuller, Margaret title: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I date: None words: 95891 flesch: 76 summary: 'That is genius, which could give such life to this play; for, if I may judge from other parts, it is defaced by inflated sentiments, and verified by few natural touches. * * 'Reading to-day a few lines of ----, I thought with refreshment of such lives as T.'s, and V.'s, and W.'s, so private and so true, where each line written is really the record of a thought or a feeling. keywords: beauty; believe; book; cambridge; character; child; conversation; course; day; days; existence; eye; eyes; faith; father; feel; feeling; fine; friends; friendship; genius; god; goethe; good; hand; head; heart; high; home; hope; hours; house; human; interest; know; knowledge; lady; letters; life; light; look; love; man; margaret; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nature; need; new; people; persons; place; power; present; reading; self; sense; soul; spirit; subject; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 13105.txt plain text: 13105.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 13106 author: Fuller, Margaret title: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II date: None words: 101079 flesch: 78 summary: So gratuitous, indeed, appeared her hypercriticism, that I could not refrain from remonstrance, and to one of my appeals she thus replied: 'If a horror for the mania of little great men, so prevalent in this country,--if aversion to the sentimental exaggerations to which so many minds are prone,--if finding that most men praise, as well as blame, too readily, and that overpraise desecrates the lips and makes the breath unworthy to blow the coal of devotion,--if rejection of the ----s and ----s, from a sense that the priestess must reserve her pæans for Apollo,--if untiring effort to form my mind to justice and revere only the superlatively good, that my praise might be praise; if this be to offend, then have I offended. Through sympathy, also, from childhood, with the tragi-comedy of many lives around her, she had gained experience of the laws and limitations of providential order. keywords: air; beauty; care; character; child; country; day; days; deep; earth; evening; eyes; faith; family; father; feel; feeling; florence; form; french; friends; genius; god; good; hand; heart; home; hope; hours; house; human; influence; interest; italian; italy; letter; life; light; little; look; love; madame; man; margaret; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; need; new; open; ossoli; past; people; place; power; present; read; rome; self; society; soul; spirit; state; sympathy; talk; things; thought; time; trust; truth; way; winter; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 13106.txt plain text: 13106.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 16199 author: Godwin, William title: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman date: None words: 24990 flesch: 62 summary: From January to September, Mr. Imlay and Mary lived together, with great harmony, at Havre, where the child, with which she was pregnant, was born, on the fourteenth of May, and named Frances, in remembrance of the dear friend of her youth, whose image could never be erased from her memory. Mr. Imlay undertook to prove, in his letters written immediately after their complete separation, that his conduct towards her was reconcilable to the strictest rectitude; but undoubtedly Mary was of a different opinion. keywords: acquaintance; affection; day; degree; father; friend; heart; house; imlay; life; mary; mind; nature; period; person; place; situation; sort; state; time; woman; years cache: 16199.txt plain text: 16199.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 19717 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) date: None words: 80899 flesch: 70 summary: VIII Verena Tarrant got up and went to her father in the middle of the room; Olive Chancellor crossed and resumed her place beside Mrs. Farrinder on the sofa the girl had quitted; and Miss Birdseye's visitors, for the rest, settled themselves attentively in chairs or leaned against the bare sides of the parlour. The daughter of Doctor Tarrant, the mesmeric healer--Miss Verena. keywords: basil; birdseye; boston; burrage; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; farrinder; friend; girl; good; house; idea; kind; ladies; lady; life; look; luna; man; miss; miss birdseye; miss chancellor; miss tarrant; moment; mother; mrs; new; olive; olive chancellor; people; ransom; room; street; tarrant; things; thought; time; verena; verena tarrant; want; way; women; world cache: 19717.txt plain text: 19717.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 19718 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) date: None words: 84914 flesch: 75 summary: We want the last news about Miss Verena, and it has got to come out of this house. The public are almost as much interested in your sister as they are in Miss Verena; they know to what extent she has backed her: and I should be so delighted (I see the heading, from here, so attractive!) keywords: away; basil ransom; birdseye; burrage; chancellor; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; good; hour; house; idea; kind; life; luna; man; mind; miss; miss chancellor; moment; mrs; new; olive; olive chancellor; people; place; prance; ransom; room; round; saw; tarrant; thought; time; verena; verena tarrant; want; way; women; world; york cache: 19718.txt plain text: 19718.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 23233 author: Wollstonecraft, Mary title: Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman date: None words: 92959 flesch: 70 summary: Write often to your poor girl, and write long letters; for I not only like them for being longer, but because more heart steals into them; and I am happy to catch your heart I have found out that I have more mind than you, in one respect; because I can, without any violent effort of reason, find food for love in the same object, much longer than you can.--The way to my senses is through my heart; but, forgive me! keywords: affection; care; character; child; conduct; darnford; day; dear; emotions; eyes; father; feelings; friend; girl; god; good; head; heart; hope; house; husband; imagination; jemima; know; left; letter; life; love; man; maria; mind; moment; morning; mother; nature; night; place; pleasure; present; reason; respect; society; soul; state; tenderness; think; thought; till; time; uncle; venables; want; wish; woman; world cache: 23233.txt plain text: 23233.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 32603 author: Howe, Julia Ward title: Reminiscences, 1819-1899 date: None words: 112405 flesch: 70 summary: Mrs. Howe, said he, this is a rout. This seemed to amuse him, and he said to some one who stood near us:-- Mrs. Howe says that in America they call routs re-cep-tions. keywords: acquaintance; age; america; andrew; boston; brother; character; charles; children; church; city; clarke; club; company; congress; country; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; dinner; england; english; europe; evening; family; father; french; friend; general; george; good; governor; hall; hand; having; henry; home; house; howe; husband; interest; james; john; lady; life; literary; little; london; meeting; men; mention; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; music; new; newport; occasion; parker; party; people; place; present; president; public; question; radical; rev; rome; room; samuel; saw; school; service; sister; society; state; suffrage; sumner; thought; time; town; visit; ward; washington; way; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; york; young cache: 32603.txt plain text: 32603.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 34413 author: Wollstonecraft, Mary title: The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay date: None words: 33811 flesch: 72 summary: Write often to your poor girl, and write long letters; for I not only like them for being longer, but because more heart steals into them; and I am happy to catch your heart Yours most affectionately MARY IMLAY I have been subscribing other letters--so I mechanically did the same to yours. keywords: affection; business; care; child; day; eyes; friend; girl; godwin; heart; hope; imlay; letter; life; love; mary; mind; morning; mrs; night; paris; reason; tenderness; thing; thought; time; want; wish; wollstonecraft cache: 34413.txt plain text: 34413.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 34856 author: Pankhurst, Emmeline title: My Own Story date: None words: 96944 flesch: 65 summary: I sympathised with and worked for the woman-suffrage movement, and came to know Dr. Pankhurst, whose work for woman suffrage had never ceased. Neither of these organisations have woman suffrage for their object. keywords: act; asquith; bill; cabinet; case; children; christabel; commons; country; course; court; day; days; deputation; election; england; fact; george; government; hall; home; house; king; law; liberal; life; london; lord; meeting; members; militancy; militant; minister; miss; movement; mrs; new; number; order; pankhurst; parliament; party; people; place; police; power; prison; prisoners; public; question; right; sir; speech; suffrage; suffrage bill; suffragettes; time; union; vote; way; woman suffrage; women; work; years cache: 34856.txt plain text: 34856.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 3529 author: Wollstonecraft, Mary title: Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark date: None words: 50807 flesch: 63 summary: The men of business are domestic tyrants, coldly immersed in their own affairs, and so ignorant of the state of other countries, that they dogmatically assert that Denmark is the happiest country in the world; the Prince Royal the best of all possible princes; and Count Bernstorff the wisest of ministers. Most of the merchants have country houses to retire to during the summer; and many of them are situated on the banks of the Elbe, where they have the pleasure of seeing the packet-boats arrive--the periods of most consequence to divide their week. keywords: appearance; character; country; day; english; fine; good; grand; half; heart; horses; house; imagination; inhabitants; left; letter; life; little; man; manners; mary; men; mind; nature; night; norway; people; place; pleasure; present; road; rocks; saw; sea; state; sweden; taste; thought; time; town; view; wollstonecraft; women; world; years cache: 3529.txt plain text: 3529.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 4220 author: Spence, Catherine Helen title: An Autobiography date: None words: 70022 flesch: 67 summary: From then on my life has flowed easily and pleasantly, marred only by the sadness of farewells of many old friends and comrades on my life's journey, who one by one have passed through Nature to eternity. My brother John married Jessie Cumming in 1858, and they were spared together for many years. keywords: adelaide; age; america; aunt; australia; book; brother; chapter; children; church; council; country; day; days; death; education; england; english; family; father; friends; george; good; government; home; house; idea; john; lady; law; life; london; man; mary; meeting; melbourne; melrose; miss; money; mother; mrs; new; people; place; pounds; public; reform; representation; school; second; sir; sister; society; south; south australia; spence; state; sydney; system; things; thought; time; visit; voting; way; wife; women; work; world; years; young cache: 4220.txt plain text: 4220.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 43152 author: Peard, Frances Mary title: The Career of Claudia date: None words: 57178 flesch: 87 summary: she declared heartily, a very good fellow indeed, even if he has a few more faults than you and Minnie will admit, and I must see a great deal more of Miss Claudia before I give my consent--which has so much to do with the matter! Must I go? said poor Claudia piteously. keywords: anne; arbuthnot; arthur; claudia; course; day; eyes; face; fenwick; girl; going; good; harry; helen; hilton; lady; leslie; little; look; love; man; mind; miss; mrs; philippa; thing; thought; time; way; wilmot; woman; work cache: 43152.txt plain text: 43152.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 43502 author: Robins, Elizabeth title: Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts date: None words: 29104 flesch: 96 summary: GEOFFREY STONOR _has appeared on the edge of the crowd, followed by_ JEAN _and_ LADY JOHN _in motor veils._) LADY JOHN (_glancing at_ JEAN _and taking alarm_). keywords: eyes; farn; geoffrey; great; jean; john; lady; lady john; levering; little; look; lord; man; miss; miss l.; mrs; people; stonor; time; voice; women; yes cache: 43502.txt plain text: 43502.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 6855 author: Grand, Sarah title: Ideala date: None words: 69510 flesch: 83 summary: Only one thing is plain to me, that when at last Ideala understood her feeling for Lorrimer, she cherished it. But I warn you that it would not be fair to take any of Ideala's opinions, here given, as final. keywords: change; child; claudia; course; day; days; eyes; face; feeling; good; help; hope; house; husband; ideala; lady; let; life; look; lorrimer; love; man; men; mind; moment; nature; night; people; place; power; room; state; subject; thing; thought; time; trouble; want; way; woman; work; world; wrong cache: 6855.txt plain text: 6855.txt