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Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

MODERN WOMAN

HER INTENTIONS

FLORENCE FARR

LONDON
FRANK PALMER
12-14 RED LION COURT

Another fire has come into the harp,

Fire from beyond the world, and wakens it:

It has begun to cry out to the eagles!

W. B. Yeats,

Second version of “Shadowy Waters.”

PREFACE
Mr. Galsworthy’s toy dog—Jewish religion— Embryology	page 7

I
THE VOTE
Latent period before explosion—Refusal of the vote has given impetus to revolutionary enthusiasm—Thin end of the wedge—Ingenuity of women—A working woman and the hospital official’s chivalry—Thirty-two million workers, half-million independent means, two million of idle spinsters in England and Wales—Our wants	15

II
WOMEN’S INCOMES
Lucrative professions for women—Opera singing—Theatrical, Literature, Medical, Expert, and average incomes—Other work—Independent incomes—Marriage for money—Courtesans, prostitutes, and riff-raff—Economic independence is a way of ennobling sex relations—Marriage often settles down into business partnership—The working man’s wife—Eugenic advantages of economic independence—Racial and social ideals are opposed to each other at present	25

III
THE VARIATIONS OF LOVE
The difficulty of a lasting attachment—Enthusiasm of youth—English girls apt to mistake interest for love—The virtuous wife—The flow and ebb of the tide of love—Permanent relations often founded on mutual contempt—Jealousy of relations—Mr. [Pg 4]Harold Gorst’s Philosophy of Love—The marriage tie must persist because it suits one half of the population—Six million bachelors and seven million spinsters in England and Wales—The ostracism of the unfaithf ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!

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