of inferiority, but by her extreme modesty and that languor, in some respects amounting to indolence, which always required kindling by special incentives. But she gave her work a character of its own and, small in quantity as it was, its value much surpassed that of her leader, as the sister was always proud to feel and to avow.
She was a staunch Liberal; but over and above considerations of party, her heart went out to every high and generous cause. She made no public appearances; her work was done contentedly in the shade. One of the first causes that she took up was Woman's Suffrage, which drew from her an essay entitled the "Citizenship of Women Socially Considered."[1] This pamphlet, her first performance in prose, written with much masculine vigour, won for her admirers who never saw her face. But the labour and excitement of its preparation prostrated her, and she uttered from the sofa to which weakness too often consigned her, a resolution never again to attempt a serious prose work, and she kept her word.
- ↑ This appeared first in the Westminster Review, and has just been reprinted by the Women's Printing Society.
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