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Title: The Wide, Wide World
Author: Elizabeth Wetherell
Release Date: June 26, 2006 [eBook #18689]
Language: English
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Susan Warner (1849-1885), The Wide Wide World (1850),
Tauchnitz edition 1854
Produced by Daniel FROMONT
_The Wide, Wide World_ as seen by _The North American Review_, January
1853
'…Miss Warner… makes her young girl passionate, though
amiable, in her temper; fond of admiration, although withheld
by innate delicacy from seeking it unduly. She places her in
circumstances of peculiar trial to her peculiar traits, and
brings her, by careful gradations, to the state of self-
governed and stable virtue which fits woman for her great
office in the world; a fitness which would be impaired by the
sacrifice of a single grace, or the loss of one sentiment of
tenderness. To build such a character on any basis other than
a religious one, would have been to fix a palace upon the
shifting sands .
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