SURPRISING IGNORANCE.
1 An old sore subject, the alleged levity of the female brain, occupied some of the ' attention of the Liberal women who were • ' conferring in Manchester at a political ; meeting lately. Lady M'Laren insisted that there was no conclusive evidence that ■ the brain of woman, when given a fair ! chance, weighed less than that of man, I and sho cited the case of George Eliot, '. whose brain was well above the noi-mai ! weight oven for men—ono of the heaviest I brains in the country. Fearing that many in the audience would, not see the force of this argument, a delegate roso and gravely addressed the chair as follows:—"Many people hero do not know George Eliot was a woman."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 3
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