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  • A woman who cannot be a governess or a novel-writer mustfall backonthat poor littleneedle, theprimitiveand original handicraft of femininity.

    - Margaret ne  e Wilson Oliphant
      'The Condition of  Women', in Blackwood's Magazine, vol.83, Feb.

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