"[W]hat knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée of the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming."
— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Author
Date
1799
Metaphor
"[W]hat knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée of the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming."
Metaphor in Context
what knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée fo the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Sheryl O' Donnell's "Mr. Locke and the Ladies: The Indelible Words on the Tabula Rasa," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 8 (1979): 151–64. p. 157.
Citation
More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. vol. 2. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davis, Strand, 1800. Online edition: Link.
Date of Entry
07/06/2005
Date of Review
10/12/2007
