Show INTO SERE AND YELLOW LEAF eighteenth century women seem to have willingly settled down in an english novel of the eighteenth century the author thus refers to a certain ascertain woman she had bad reached reache d the tha age of 35 an ago age beyond which no woman can hope either to feel or inspire deep affection in one of george merediths meredithe hs early novels he refers to a character as a woman 11 on tile the criminal side of 30 A doston boston woman in the last century after reaching the ago age of 30 put on over he her r abundant natural hair a false front and a cap these wore were the outward and visible signs of the matronly mai ma i turley durity she had reached she gave up at tho the same time all the gayer forms forma of social intercourse she confined herself thereafter to the mild and elderly variety she had come out into boston society at 15 after two years of social gayet gay etlea les she had bad married at 30 she was the mother of eight children she had bad lived the active part of her bar life in accordance with the conventions of her time she settled down to a life of vegetating domesticity she was not an aa exception she was tho normal woman auman of her day registering its customs jut just aa a good thermometer registers the temperature App latona magazine |