Word: bluestockingism
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In his letters, Shaw lectured, hectored, reminded, advised, admonished, informed, reproached, insulted, encouraged, saluted and made love to an astonishing range of people. He wrote to women with the vanity of a lyrebird in a coopful of Rhode Island Reds. To one, he declared: "No use in looking for human...
When eventually Rama takes off for Europe to become a "holy vagabond," he has difficulty explaining himself to Europeans, let alone the Europeans to himself. But Rama does his best to embrace and smother with love the barbarous tribes of Paris, and records an impulse to lead a cow up...
I MET A LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation...
Cooper's letters and journals deal largely with the seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark...
The Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of...