Victorian San Francisco Mysteries: Books 5-7: Pilfered Promises, Scholarly Pursuits, Lethal Remedies by Locke M Louisa

Author:Locke, M Louisa [Locke, M Louisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09LHZ6VVW
Published: 2021-11-08T23:00:00+00:00

Laura hoped that Annie would take a nap after lunch. She’d looked so worn out. Nate was a fool not to see that what his wife wanted during these last months of pregnancy was his presence, not the money he made. She’d been so nice about thanking Laura for coming with her, but she knew Annie would have preferred to have Nate by her side, not his little sister, as she picked out cribs and decided whether cotton mattresses were superior to horsehair. Nate would say that he had no expertise in any of those sorts of domestic matters. But if what Annie wanted was expertise, she would have chosen Mrs. Stein to accompany her, not Laura, who had no more experience than her brother.

Well, Annie and Nate would work things out. They always did.

For now, she needed to finish looking through the book Female Poets of America that had belonged to Grace to see if she could figure out why Grace had abandoned this topic—or what Grace meant by the cryptic note that said, “Check Sanders,” that Caro had found in this book.

She had started paging through the volume this morning before the shopping trip with Annie and discovered that someone, she assumed Grace, had put very light pencil marks along the page margins. She quickly determined that these pencil marks indicated words and phrases that then appeared in the back of Grace’s notebook for Sanders’ class. Laura thought these must have been possible themes that Grace was exploring for her essay for the Neolaean Society meeting.

If Laura actually wrote a paper for Sanders’ class, she would probably create a similar index, although she suspected she would choose slightly different key words than Grace had chosen. Grace appeared to have been focusing on explicit religious imagery, not something of much interest to Laura. What she was interested in was refuting the stupid argument the editor of this compilation of female poets had made in his preface. Rufus Wilmot Griswold had written: “…it does not follow that, because the most essential genius in men is marked by qualities which we may call feminine, that such qualities when found in female writers have any certain or just relation to mental superiority.”

The man seemed to be arguing that if a woman wrote something flowery, it was ordinary, but if a man did the same thing…he was a genius! This reminded Laura of the argument made by the San Francisco school board when they slashed teachers’ salaries in half, saying that women who were excellent teachers were not doing anything extraordinary because they were only doing what came naturally to any woman. But a man who was an excellent elementary or primary school teacher should be rewarded by being given a job with better pay and more prestige—like being the school principal.

While she knew Caro would hate that argument, it wasn’t clear that Grace would have felt the same way. Caro had mentioned several times that her cousin tended to accept the idea

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