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influeue: between France and! England, and humorously game is the eqnclusion that man is being reduced more and more to the position of a mere motey making machine, and that only
He ex women have the time to read. pressed the hope that the literary tender. cies which the two countries had in em mon would help them to understand oịch other better.
SUPREMACY OF SAPPHO,
Sir A. Conan Doyle, in proposing The Ladies and Literature," said it was a curious fact that the greatest female name ever attached to literature-the only one, he supposed, that could be said: to have reached the stars-was the first of Of all Sapple still stood supreme. course, very few of her works were left. and that put her in strong position in respect to the critics. (Laughter.) But two or three of her lyries and other frag ments stood out like beautiful architec turat remains in a desert. This history of female literature from the time of Sappho to the end of the seventeenth century, was the easiest in the world, be cause there was net any, (Laughter.) He did not know that in that long period any lady attained what could be decently enlle à second-class in literature. At the end of the seventeenth century the sluie gates were sudderly ofred. and such write as Madame 4 Stuel and George Sand in France, and Fanny Burney and Mudam D'Arblay in Great Britain and their appearance. It was true that the latter's
Evelina พ.+ only Richardson and water, but it was! very good Richardson and not too much water, and it fully deserved the success it had attained. (Hear, hear). Ther then came to the classical figure of Jaus Austen, and from then there had never been time when literature, in the female line, had not prospered in Eng land. Those writers might be divided into those who wrote with masculine brains and those who wrote like women. Some of the greatest female writers seem- ed to him to have been using the mascu line quality of the brain, but what he expressly admired was that which was absolutely feminice, with its peculiar quality of tatensity. Take the first few pages
of the Romance of an African Farm, or a good deal of Jane Eyre"! and Wuthering Heights." There was a quality about them which co mas could have achieved. Formerly be always thought, when reading a book, that he could tell whether it was written by a fell man of a woman, but he recently down" badly: One of the strongest covels of our generation, which deserved to be better known than "it" was, was "Mary Leigh." He recognised it, at once, as a classic, and wrote the young ladys be imagined-who had written it, a letter of congratulation. In reply, he received a letter from a captain in a infantry regiment., (Laughter.)
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Miss Sheila Kaye Smith, in her said she was rather, at a loss to nader- stand how it was that, apparently, for several thousand years no women were writing. She believed that until 200 or 500 years ago education was far mure general amongst women in the upper classes, at any rate-than amongst bien. the reason being that mec had at the time for study that women had. There- fore, at the time of the revival of lear ing the hucwledge of the Latin and Greek torgues was fairly common among the ladies of the Tudor period. in pro portion to the knowledge which men had ef those languages. Yet they did not see those ladies rushing into the palace ci literature. But nowadays so many were writing that a great many, who won laureis several hundred years ago would perhaps find it very dificult to win them. to-day. Talking generally, she would say that our general standard of Ezerasure was more uniformly excellent than formefly.. On the other hand, there were very few outstanding names, even compared to those we had about a century ago. She, would say that women writers were moak This was found especially in what was Sha ing as good a show as men, though one called the artistic temperament. would not perhaps give the first three or thought that women always wrote dif- four places in English literature "to-day ferent types of books to men, owing to to women. Those first three or four their differences, but she did not think places belonged to the elder men-Len they were handicapped permanently by whose age prevezzd them taking any Nature so that they must always write active part in the war, whereas the a type of book inferior to the men's.
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the result that many a young covelist and the Brontes," said Miss Kaye-Smith, who showed promise in 1914 had not since on a level with any novelist of the nine. been heard of, or at any rate, got to teenth century, with the exception of any great degree Women bad thus had Dickens and Thackeray. After Dickens an open field, compared with the younger and Thackeray I think I should put them That was why so many women above all others.". Nevertheless, aho were at present attaining a fairly emin- thought it would be a pity if women lost ent position in literature.
those differences; it would be as much a There was one point where she did not mistake for a woman to try to write like quite understand Sir A. Conan Doyle, a man and to suppress the natural. and that was when he referred to the characteristics of her sex in a book as it masculine attribute of the braib. (Laugh would be for a man to try to write like a ter.) She knew that it was considered woman-although, of course, a tour de that the man wrote from his brain and force was always amusing and occa the woman from her beart, though in bersionally successful. She felt sure that own experience she had found women's there was not at the present moment in brains.as good as men's aud men's hearts existence a club for both men and women as good as women's. (Laughter and writers, and perhaps this was a case in cheers.) One could not make a very which it was wise to draw the line be large, general discrimination between the tween the sexes and to have the Authors' seres and divide them into classes in the Club on the one side and the Writers manner followed by modern serities, who Club on the other. As far as she could sometimes wrote "So-and-gn is quite one remember the Writing Women's dinners of the best ramen writers of the pre-were. for women alone, whereas the sent moment." Either "So-and-so" was Authors Club had once a year a "ladies' of the best writers, or she was. not, night." This was very easily explained; (Cheers.) It seemed rather hopeless to the women's club existed for the purpose. drag the question of sex into a profes of entertaining the men: any day one sion like literature, "in which the ques would find man being there entertained. tion of sex did not wem to bring about informally, but she doubted if one would inferiority or superiority so much as a discover the opposite thing at the certain variety. In between the typically Authors' Club. This was all part of the feminine woman and the typically mascu- well-known English idea that men joined lina man there was every grade of a club to get away from their women. masculinity and femininity, until in the (Laughter.) But women joined a club end they almost seemed to fuse together to have a place where they could enter
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