FEMININE GENIUS IN FICTION.
“lii English fiction women writers have certainly conic ncnr challenging the supremacy oi‘ the male. Jane Austen and the Brontes have no rivals among men writers, as Dickens am. ; Scott have no rivals among women I writers. A list of English novelists of genius of the nineteenth century would, Ifancy, contain more women’s names than a list of persons of gcniu> in any other vocation. In England., more than in any other country, tin j woman writer of genius has nourished. Genius cannot appear except when circumstances are iavourame, an., circumstances have always in the pa * j Peer, more favourable to'the appearance of genius among men than among women. Education. variety of espenence. everything that makes lor I ree- • dom of mind and independence ol cliaracter—in all these things men hare hcen more fortunate than wiiiiKin. Hubert l.yiul, in the London “ Daily News.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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147FEMININE GENIUS IN FICTION. Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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