 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...disquisition ensues on the social status of single women in England, and the author's belief that they should have more to do — better chances of interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. She complains, for example, that while the brothers in certain households she names, are in business... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 430 pages
...over it, how they are to be altered for the better; but I feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do — better...And when I speak thus, I have no impression that I displeas* God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. My consolation... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 318 pages
...over it, how they are to be altered for the better; but I feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do, — better...and compassionates much grief which man stops his cars against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say impotent, for I observe that to such grievances... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 pages
...but I feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do—better chances of interesting and profitable occupation than...impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. Mv " I never find Miss Ainley oppressed with despondeney, or lost in grief," she thought; " yet her... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...to the breast of the hill ; and ere-long, in sleep, forgot sorrow. DUTY OF FATHERS TO DAUGHTERS. I believe single women should have more to do — better...interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1899 - 722 pages
...over it, how they are to be altered for the better ; but I feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do — better...consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and c6mpassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Collet - 1902 - 158 pages
...over it, how they are to be altered for the better ; but 1 feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do — better...interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. . . . Look at the numerous families of girls in this neighbourhood — the Armitages, the Birtwhistles,... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Collet - 1902 - 166 pages
...over it, how they are to be altered for the better ; but 1 feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women should have more to do— better...of interesting and profitable occupation than they posses* now. . . . Look at the numerous families of girls in this neighbourhood — the Annitages,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1908 - 532 pages
...how they are to be altered for the better ; but I feel there is some- -» thing wrong somewhere. I believe single women should • have more to do — better chances of interesting and pro- / Stable occupation than they possess now. And when • I / speak thus, I have no impression that... | |
 | Mary Taylor Blauvelt - 1912 - 232 pages
...should try? I have been rereading "Shirley"1 lately. Listen to Caroline Helstone on this subject. "I believe single women should have more to do, better...interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. — Yet it seems that old maids should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world, it disturbs... | |
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nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are : and I cannot tell, however much I puzzle over it, how they are to be altered for the better ; but I feel there is something wrong somewhere. I believe single women... 
