1852. New York
Why read it? Early feminist novel. The obsessive nature of reformers.
Ideas:
Coverdale to Hollingsworth: “I wish you could see fit to comprehend…that the profoundest wisdom must be mingled with nine-tenth of nonsense; else it is not worth the breath that utters it.” p. 746. ……… “…and happiness (which never comes but incidentally) will come to us unawares.” p. 749. ……….Coverdale to Hollingsworth: “And will you cast off a friend for no unworthiness, but merely because he stands upon his right, as an individual human being, and looks at matters through his own optics, instead of yours?” p. 750. ………. Hollingsworth: “Be with me…or be against me…no third choice for you.” p. 751. ………. Of Silas Foster: “He can do his day’s work…with any man or ox on the farm.” p. 752. ………. “…Silas with genuine Yankee intolerance of any intermission of toil, except on Sunday, the Fourth of July, the autumnal cattle-show, Thanksgiving…. p. 753. ………. Zenobia: “…if I choose a counselor, in the present state of my affairs, it must be either an angel or a madman; and I rather apprehend that the latter should be likeliest of the two to speak the fitting word.” p. 756.
To be continued.
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