+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s Note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ MODERN WOMAN HER INTENTIONS BY FLORENCE FARR [Illustration: Logo] LONDON FRANK PALMER 12-14 RED LION COURT _Another fire has come into the harp,_ _Fire from beyond the world, and wakens it:_ _It has begun to cry out to the eagles!_ W. B. YEATS, _Second version of “Shadowy Waters.”_ _First published 1910. All rights reserved_ CONTENTS PREFACE Mr. Galsworthy’s toy dog--Jewish religion--Embryology _page_ 7 I THE VOTE Latent period before explosion--Refusal of the vote has given impetus to revolutionary enthusiasm--Thin end of the wedge--Ingenuity of women--A working woman and the hospital official’s chivalry--Thirty-two million workers, half-million independent means, two million of idle spinsters in England and Wales--Our wants 15 II WOMEN’S INCOMES Lucrative professions for women--Opera singing--Theatrical, Literature, Medical, Expert, and average incomes--Other work--Independent incomes--Marriage for money--Courtesans, prostitutes, and riff-raff--Economic independence is a way of ennobling sex relations--Marriage often settles down into business partnership--The working man’s wife--Eugenic advantages of economic independence--Racial and social ideals are opposed to each other at present 25 III THE VARIATIONS OF LOVE The difficulty of a lasting attachment--Enthusiasm of youth--English girls apt to mistake interest for love--The virtuous wife--The flow and ebb of the tide of love--Permanent relations often founded on mutual contempt--Jealousy of relations--Mr. Harold Gorst’s _Philosophy of Love_--The marriage tie must persist because it suits one half of the population--Six million bachelors and seven million spinsters in England and Wales--The ostracism of the unfaithful is more often the cause of disease becoming serious than infidelity--The emotional degradation of a loveless marriage 33 IV THE SORDID DIVORCE