“I talked to them about Bagehot’s Estimations in Criticism, which we had been looking over with some disgust; he had such an extensive idea of the necessity of keeping “young ladies” ignorant of everything connected with sex, & expresses it so repulsively, & in another place talks exactly as a man with such notions might be expected to talk, about the probable “guilt” of Mary Stuart and the horror of being expected to read novels with ugly heroines.”
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