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" ... it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them,... "
Jane Eyre - Page 114
by Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 483 pages
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 9

1859 - 684 pages
...as men would suffer ; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellowcreatures to say that ral manner and character, began once more to know...to-night." "But what, then," said he, "do you expect me to Pople's laugh: the same — the same peal, the same low, slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had...
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Arthur's Home Magazine, Volumes 37-38

1871 - 730 pages
...brother; do, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought t» confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano aid embroidering bags." THE iNfLUZSCE OP ONE ACT. — On« pound »' gold may be drawn into a wire...
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Life and works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, Volume 1

Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh : the same peal, the same low, slow ha ! ha ! which; when first heard, had thrilled me : I heard, too, her eccentric...
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Education, Volume 5

1885 - 696 pages
...They suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is thoughtless to condemn them or laugh at them,...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." The final test of this question of occupations for educated women is met squarely in the case of a...
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An Hour with Charlotte Bronté: Or, Flowers from a Yorkshire Moor

Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...as men would suffer ; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed ; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano c,nd embroidering bags. It ia thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more...
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 372 pages
...as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had thrilled me: I heard, too, her eccentric...
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Women Writers: Their Works and Ways ...

Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1893 - 352 pages
...as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags." As months went on, hundreds of speculations were made as to the author of Jane Eyre. Who could the...
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A Comparison, Criticism & Estimate of the English Novelists from 1700 to 1850

P. F. Rowland - 1894 - 42 pages
...as men would suffer ; and it is narrow minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.' (Jani Eyre.) more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect...
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A History of English Literature: By F.V.N. Painter

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...as men would suffer ; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellowcreatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." The next work of Miss Bronte was " Shirley," which appeared in 1849. It was written, one might say,...
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