Friday, March 12th, 2010

mothwing: A wanderer standing on a cliff, looking over a distant city (Book)
Perspectives

Mary Somerville 1780-1872

The strain of abstract thought, her father feared,
might injure her tender female frame. It did not.
It was more the needlework, the pianoforte 
at Miss Primrose’s Boarding School for Girls 
in dreary Musselburgh which fettered her spirit.
When she left, she said she felt like 
a wild animal escaped out of a cage.
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- Brian McCabe. 

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