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Mary O'Grady
Mothers and Mothering
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"...She finds the pram good company, and besides, the children give her good cause to linger on the canal edge that glows with "the full splendour of a country meadow."...Mary's inner life is full and rich with the cares of her home and children; she allows no shadows or even a dangerous word like "delicate" to fall on them: "Let there be no talk about delicacy. That word was like a curse...If a boy or a girl had any little weakness the best thing to do was to fight against it..."
(J.L., p. 201)