Women Who Read Novels.
According to- a -student of things social a hundred reasons exist why woman is the chief inducement for novelists to ply their trade. After a busy day , into which many petty cares and worries enter, the complete change of mental and moral atmosphere offered by a bright, stirring story is a grateful relief. A well-written book, whose characters live, is company for the lonely. The skilled delineator of the comedy of manners appeals, to the woman reader, for she loves human nature better than incident. Librarians aver , that the woman who devours fiction as fast as it can be manufactured usually concentrates in one or two directions. Either she demands a rich, luscious,. emotional glow over all, which, may include tragedy, romance, or problem, but must have passion as the mainspring, or she is avid of everything that has anything to say on life —seamy aspects,, not shirked —from an analytical standpoint.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 81
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156Women Who Read Novels. Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 81
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