The profession of letters is so little understood, and so far from being seriously appreciated, that responsible editors will accept and publish magazine articles by women of "title" and "fashion", who prove themselves as ignorant of grammar as they are of spelling. The printer's reader corrects the spelling, but the grammar is generally left as its "aristocratic" writer penned it, in majestic incompleteness. The newspapers are full, not of thoughtful, honestly expressed public opinion on the affairs of the nation, but of vapid "personalities", interesting to none save gossips and busy-bodies.
Marie Corelli, 1905
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