 ... 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 114de Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 483 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Lewis Edwards Gates - 1900 - 252 pages
...they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer. ... It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or to learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." This passage in Jane Eyre is indeed... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 356 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... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrowminded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to Bay that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtjessjtp condemn^ Jbhem, ^r laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more_than_custom... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin - 1978 - 186 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...more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.4 Jane's rhetorical strategy is obvious. By beginning with human beings, the "masses of life which... | |
 | Barbara Hill Rigney - 1978 - 164 pages
...their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making purses and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex (132-33). The next lines, which so disturbed Virginia Woolf in her reading of Jane Eyre and left her... | |
 | Elinor Jones - 1979 - 68 pages
...restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer. And it is narrow-minded to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. (During this Emily and Anne have been at the desk, writing. Emily now gets up and begins pacing back... | |
 | Ingrid Wendt - 1980 - 340 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. My Business Is to Sing By Emily Dickinson Born in Amherst, Massachusetts into a prominent family —... | |
 | Helene Moglen - 1984 - 260 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. (p. 133) Having little to lose, she can afford to be spontaneous and open. In her interaction with... | |
 | Kathleen Wall - 1988 - 238 pages
...precisely 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. (141) It is out of the frustration she feels here that Jane makes the walk to the village that ends... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1988 - 346 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. [ch. 12] Jane's protest articulated the dissatisfactions of an era that had been marked by the French... | |
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