Mrs. Cowper was spoken of by Montague as standing at the head of all that is called learned, and that every critic veiled his bonnet at her superior judgment. Joanna Baille had been termed the woman Shakespeare . Caroline Herschell shares the fame of her brother as an astronomer. The Greatest triumphs of the present age in the drama, music, and literature have been achieved by women, among them whom may be mentioned, Charolette Cushman, Jenny Lind, the Misses Carey, Mrs. Stowe , and Margaret Fuller . Mrs. Somerville 's renown has long been spread over both continents as one of the first mathematicians of the present age.
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Let us look at the rights it is boasted women now possess. After marriage the husband and the wife are considered as one person in law, which I hold to be false from the very laws applicable to married parties. Such a thing would be a veritable impossibility. One-half of a person can not be made the protection or direction of the other half. After stating at considerable length, the reasons showing their unity, the learned commentator proceeds to cut the know, and show they are not one, but are considered as tow persons, one superior, the one inferior, not only so, but in the eye of the law as acting from compulsion.