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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 132

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ury reveals myriad changes and the actual realization of Tennysons prophetic•Princess,* We have prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. One hundred years ago it was the duty of a woman to efface herself. Shewas expected to make of herself a mental blank-book upon which her hus-band might inscribe… … GEORGE ELIOT. the 122 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY nition of individual life. The woman, if unmarried, was merged in thefamily, or, if married, merged in the husband. Her name, her religion, hergods, were changed on marriage. But, married or single, the absorptionwas complete. So it…

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