1852. New York
Why read it? Early feminist novel. The obsessive nature of reformers.
Ideas:
“The greatest obstacle to being heroic, is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt—and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.” p. 640. ………. “He [Silas Foster] greeted us in pretty much the same tone as if he were speaking to his oxen.” p. 647. ………. “We had left…the weary tread-mill of the established system.” p. 648. ………. Silas Foster: “…reckoning three of you city-folks as worth one common field-hand.” p. 649. ………. “The fantasy occurred to me, that she [Priscilla] was some desolate kind of creature, doomed to wander about in snow storms….” p. 655. ………. “How many men, I wonder, does one meet with in a lifetime, whom he would choose for his death-bed companions!” p. 667. ………. Hollingsworth: “I should…say that the most marked trait in my character is an inflexible severity of purpose.” p. 668.
To be continued.
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