The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)

The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)

There seems to be a kind of renaissance of motherhood in the air. Ellen Key has just done a book with that title which has come to us too late to be reviewed adequately in this issue; Mrs. Gasquoine Hartley has written The Age of Mother Power which will be brought out in the fall; and in Shaws new volume of plays (Misalliance, Fannys First Play and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets) there is a preface of over a hundred pages devoted to a discussion of parents and children which says some of the most refreshing and important things about that relationship I have ever read. The home, as such, is rapidly losing its old functionsperhaps it is more accurate to say that it is changing its standards of functioning, and that the present distress merely heralds in a wonderful new conception of family potentiality. But a generalization of this sort can be disputed by any family egotist, so lets get down to particulars. Its all right for the enlightened of the older generation to preach violently that the family is a humbug, as Shaw does; that the child should have all the rights of any other human being, and that there is nothing so futile or so stupid as to try to control your children. Its not only all right; its glorious! But what Im more interested in, still being of the age that must classify as daughter, is this:what are the children themselves doing about it? Have their rebellions been anything more than complaints; have they made any real stand for liberty; have they proved themselves worthy of the Shavian championship? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64083
Author: Various
Release Date: Dec 20, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Anderson, Margaret C., 1886-1973