The Wit of Women

The Wit of Women - Fourth EditionTO G.W.B. In Grateful Memory. [Pg13] THE MELANCHOLY TONE OF WOMEN'S...
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Author: Sanborn, Kate,1839-1917
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Language: English
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The Wit of Women

The Wit of Women

€6,34

The Wit of Women

€6,34
Author: Sanborn, Kate,1839-1917
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition

TO G.W.B. In Grateful Memory. [Pg13] THE MELANCHOLY TONE OF WOMEN'S POETRYPUNS, GOOD AND BADEPIGRAMS AND LACONICSCYNICISM OF FRENCH WOMENSENTENCES CRISP AND SPARKLING. To begin a deliberate search for wit seems almost like trying to be witty: a task quite certain to brush the bloom from even the most fruitful results. But the statement of Richard Grant White, that humor is the "rarest of qualities in woman," roused such a host of brilliant recollections that it was a temptation to try to materialize the ghosts that were haunting me; to lay forever the suspicion that they did not exist. Two articles by Alice Wellington Rollins in the Critic, on "Woman's Sense of Humor" and "The Humor of Women," convinced me that the deliberate task might not be impossible to carry out, although I felt, as she did, that the humor and wit of women are difficult to analyze, and select examples, precisely because they possess in the highest degree that almost essential quality of wit, the unpremeditated glow which exists only with the occasion that calls it forth. Even from the humor of women found in books it is hard to quotenot because there is so little, but because there is so much.[Pg14] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28503
Author: Sanborn, Kate
Release Date: Apr 5, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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