Sublime

days.” Henry James, then a child growing up on West Fourteenth Street, not a half mile from the Stewart family,

queerly shaped old man, with a thick, powerful body set on short bow-legs.

Big Mama Thornton (“Hound Dog”)

There you have the start of Herland! One family, all descended from one mother! She lived to a hundred years old; lived to see her hundred and twenty-five great-granddaughters born; lived as Queen-Priestess-Mother of them all; and died with a nobler pride and a fuller joy than perhaps any human soul has ever known—she alone had founded a new race!

Here goes for Herland!"

eyes—it was like a creature about to spring.

A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.

Eugenics flourished in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.