THE PEN WOMAN.
1..->rd Birkenhead’s (speech, at the Authors’ Club oil the achievements of women in literature has been keenly discussed. He closed bis address by saving:—”! must whether welcome or unwelcome say quite plainly that if von take the last 300 years of European life women authors have not he'd their own with male authors during that neriod. Nor do I think it is nil extenuation of that failure that then liabilities have been other and different. The names of women poets have been few and inconsiderable. Yon would have supposed that womeii-«ould bo more poetic than men. AMiv aie they not? Isn’t it obvious that they ought to be that they are less material, less crude, than men? How many women poets of the first quality have ever been nrodueed in the woild . What is the explanation Ts it a sex complex? Explanations there must lie, disputation of the facts there cannot be.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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155THE PEN WOMAN. Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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