The LadyBy Emily James Putnam(American contemporary. The following is from her book, whose title is self-explanatory—“The Lady.”)
By Emily James Putnam
(American contemporary. The following is from her book, whose title is self-explanatory—“The Lady.”)
The typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.... She can renounce the world more easily than she can identify herself with it. A lady may become a nun in the strictest and poorest order without the moral convulsion, the destruction of false ideas, the birth of character that would be the preliminary steps toward becoming an effective stenographer.