However much we steel ourselves against it, the arrogant and dismissive attitude of 19th-century men toward their female contemporaries can still sting. “What then shall the woman of genius do; what can she do, and be woman still?” asked a writer in the Christian Interior in 1851. “She finds herself in possession of riches for which she never sighed nor prayed … and what shall she do with it? Was it given to her to be a curse … to separate her from her kind merely to unsex her?”
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