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I had come at last, in the course of this rambling1, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women and by men; for there are almost as many books written by women now as by men. Or if that is not yet quite true, if the male is still the voluble sex, it is certainly true that women no longer write novels solely2. There are Jane Harrison’s books on Greek archaeology3; Vernon Lee’s books on aesthetics4; Gertrude Bell’s books on Persia. There are books on all sorts of subjects which a generation ago no woman could have touched. There are poems and plays and criticism; there are histories and biographies, books of travel and books of scholarship and research; there are even a few philosophies and books about science and economics. And though novels predominate, novels themselves may very well have changed from association with books of a different feather. The natural simplicity5, the epic6 age of women’s writing, may have gone. Reading and criticism may have given her a wider range, a greater subtlety7. The impulse towards autobiography8 may be spent. She may be beginning to use writing as an art, not as a method of self-expression. Among these new novels one might find an answer to several such questions.
I took down one of them at random9. it stood at the very end of the shelf, was called Life’s Adventure, or some such title, by Mary Carmichael, and was published in this very month of October. it seems to be her first book, I said to myself, but one must read it as if it were the last volume in a fairly long series, continuing all those other books that I have been glancing at — Lady Winchilsea’s poems and Aphra Behn’s plays and the novels of the four great novelists. For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. And I must also consider her — this unknown woman — as the descendant of all those other women whose circumstances I have been glancing at and see what she inherits of their characteristics and
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motive
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concealment
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dressing
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entirely
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infinitely
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neatly
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fidelity
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housekeeper
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diplomacy
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butts
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providence
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platonic
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embroidery
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likeness
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longing
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v.(使布、绳等)磨损,磨破( fray的现在分词 ) | |
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adj.星光照耀的, 闪亮的 | |
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