Comradeship of Women.

Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 81

Comradeship of Women.

Mr Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, speaking at the Society of Women Journalists, said that “ one of the noblest results of our civilisation was that it was producing a type of woman whose attitude to man was changing, a woman who was becoming more and more man’s intellectual comrade. In all the intellectual walks of life woman was pressing in; she was becoming man’s successful competitor, and his welcome and staunch friend. In fiction she was proving his equal in matter, and his superior in numbers. “ But, while we were progressing, some notable types of womankind were passing away—the types presented to them by Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot—delightful English girls, all of whom

seemed to be passing away from us. There was, however, one .type of womanhood which be hoped Nature would beep on producing, whatever political or moral earthquakes might happen, and that was the type of Portia, Brutus’s wife. It was a notable fact that nearly all Shakespeare’s women were more or less counsellors, advisors, and stimulators.”