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Characteristics of Women, by Anna Jameson
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Title: Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
Author: Anna Jameson
Release Date: July 31, 2008 [EBook #26152]
Language: English
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CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN
MORAL, POETICAL, AND HISTORICAL
BY
MRS. JAMESON
From the last London Edition
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1889
PREFACE
TO THE NEW EDITION.
In preparing for the press a new edition of this little work, the author has endeavored to render it more worthy of the approbation and kindly feeling with which it has been received; she cannot better express her sense of both than by justifying, as far as it is in her power, the cordial and flattering tone of all the public criticisms. It is to the great name of SHAKSPEARE, that bond of sympathy among all who speak his language, and to the subject of the work, not to its own merits, that she attributes the success it has met with,--success the more delightful, because, in truth, it was from the v