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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Wit of Women, by Kate Sanborn
Title: The Wit of Women
Fourth Edition
Author: Kate Sanborn
Release Date: April 5, 2009 [eBook #28503]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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"The Wit of Women," by Miss Kate Sanborn, [Funk & Wagnalls,] proves that the authoress is one of those rare women who are gifted with a sense of humor. Fortunately for her, the female sense of humor, when it does exist, is not affected by such trifles as "chestnuts." Therefore, women will read with pleasure Miss Sanborn's choice collection of these dainties. There are, however, many new anecdotes in Miss Sanborn's collection, and, taken as a whole, it may fairly be said to establish the fact that there have been feminine wits not inferior to the best of the opposite sex.
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THE WIT OF WOMEN
BY
KATE SANBORN
FOURTH EDITION
NEW YORK
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
LONDON AND TORONTO
1895
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Miss Addie Boyd, of the Cincinnati "Commercial," and Miss Anna M.T. Rossiter, alias Lilla M. Cushman, of the Meriden "Recorder," will probably represent the gentler sex in the convention of paragraphers which meets next month. They are a pair o' graphic writers and equal to the best in the profession.—Waterloo Observer.
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INTRODUCTION.
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.
While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and unrecognized.
With the joy and honest pride of a discoverer, I present the results of a summer's gleaning.
And I feel a cheerful and Colonel Sellers-y confidence in the success of the book, for every woman will want to own it, as a matter of pride and interest, and many men will buy it just to see what women think they can do in this line. In fact, I expect a call for a second volume!
Kate Sanborn.
Hanover, N.H., August, 1885.
My thanks are due to so many publishers, magazine editors, and personal friends for material for this book, that a formal note of acknowledgment seems meagre and unsatisfactory. Proper credit, however, has been given all through the volume, and with special indebtedness to Messrs. Harper & Brothers and Charles Scribner's Sons of New York, and Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston. I add sincere gratitude to all who have so generously contributed whatever was requested.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Melancholy Tone of Women's Poetry—Puns, Good and Bad—Epigrams and Laconics—Cynicism of French Women—Sentences Crisp and Sparkling | 13 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Humor of Literary Englishwomen | 32 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| From Anne Bradstreet to Mrs. Stowe | 47 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| "Samples" Here and There | 67 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| A Brace of Witty Women | 85 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Ginger-Snaps | 103 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Prose, but not Prosy | 122 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Humorous Poems | 150 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Good-Natured Satire | 179 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Parodies—Reviews—Children's Poems—Comedies by Women —A Dramatic Trifle—A String of Firecrackers | 195 |
TO
G.W.B.
In Grateful Memory.
"There was in her soul a sense of delicacy mingled with that rarest of qualities in woman—a sense of humor," writes Richard Grant White in "The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys." I have noticed that when a novelist sets out to portray an uncommonly fine type of heroine, he invariably adds to her other intellectual and moral graces the above-mentioned "rarest of qualities." I may be over-sanguine, but I anticipate that some sagacious genius will discover that woman as well as man has been endowed with this excellent gift from the gods, and that the gift pertains