Working backwards on Madame de Staël
From the conclusion of J. Christopher Herold's 1958 biography Mistress to an Age:
Byron, shortly after his first meeting with Germaine, wrote to a friend, "She thinks like a man, but alas! she feels like a woman." The "alas!" is gratuitous. It was her feeling like a woman, her passionate feminine exaltation and emotion, which communicated its ( Read more... )
Byron, shortly after his first meeting with Germaine, wrote to a friend, "She thinks like a man, but alas! she feels like a woman." The "alas!" is gratuitous. It was her feeling like a woman, her passionate feminine exaltation and emotion, which communicated its ( Read more... )
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