The Wide, Wide World

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Wide, Wide World, by Elizabeth WetherellThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Wide, Wide WorldAuthor: Elizabeth WetherellRelease Date: June 26, 2006 [eBook #18689]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD***Susan Warner (1849-1885), The Wide Wide World (1850),Tauchnitz edition 1854Produced by Daniel FROMONTThe Wide, Wide World as seen by The North American Review, January 1853 ' Miss Warner makes her young girlpassionate, though amiable, in her temper; fond of admiration, although withheld by innate delicacy from seeking itunduly. She places her in circumstances of peculiar trial to her peculiar traits, and brings her, by careful gradations, to thestate of self- governed and stable virtue which fits woman for her great office in the world; a fitness which would beimpaired by the sacrifice of a single grace, or the loss of one sentiment of tenderness. To build such a character on anybasis other than a religious one, would have been to fix a palace upon the shifting sands . . . Ellen and Fleda are reared,by their truly feminine and natural experiences, into any thing but "strong-minded women," at least if we accept Mr.Dickens's notion of that dreadful order. They are both ...