Groups of tourists posed for photos on the steps next to the two sculptures—both of women, one holding a globe and the other a paintbrush and palette.
This suddenly brought to mind a memory of Louisa May Alcott's book "An Old Fashioned Girl" and a scene where the protagonist, Polly, takes her friend, Fran, to visit a sculptor named Rebecca who is working on a statue of a woman who is to be "bigger, lovelier, and more imposing than any we see nowadays, and at the same time, she is a true woman." We are still working on this ideal.
