Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Graduate Club. The Economic Side of Woman Suffrage. Mr. J. G. Brooks. Colonial Club House...
...these was the virtue most peculiar to their society and destined to have the greatest vogue in Europe: love. As a Christian virtue, love was already sufficiently familiar; but the new notion was different from the old, and even antagonistic to it. It carried with it a rehabilitation of woman, and brought an entire change of sentiment towards...
...hundred years woman had been falling lower and lower in social estimation. Even the attitude of the church towards her was extremely unfavorable, so much so that St. Jerome commended as "golden" the work in which Theocrastus stated that a good woman was rarer than a white blackbird, and complained that a man had nevertheless to marry without such a trial as would be expected if he bought even a beast of burden. The question whether woman was a human being was also soberly discussed at church council. It was finally decided that she was; but with so much favor...
...Provence, woman was restored not only to equality with man, but to a vast superiority. The ideals of Provence were carried north by Elinor. They were spread further through France by the influence of her daughter Marie, who married Count Henry of Champagne and set up her court at Trois. She gave great encouragement to poetry and developed a school in the north of France whose ideals and forms were essentially those of the troubadors of Provence. From Trois came the poet Chretien, whose works, written with much skill, became universally popular. Through them he gave expression in extenso...
...Waltz, "Wine, Woman, and Song," Strauss...