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Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter 1. Lola Montez: The Dancer Who Kicked Over a Throne
Chapter 2. Ninon de L’enclos: Premiere Siren of Two Centuries
Chapter 3. Peg Woffington: Irish Heart Conjurer
Chapter 4. Helen of Troy: Model for All the Sirens of the Centuries
Chapter 5. Madame Jumel: New York’s First Official Heart Breaker
Chapter 6. Adrienne Lecouvreur: The “Actress Heart Queen”
Chapter 7. Cleopatra: “The Serpent of Old Nile”
Chapter 8. George Sand: The Hopelessly Ugly Siren
Chapter 9. Madame Du Barry: The Seven-Million-Dollar Siren.
Chapter 10. “The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington”
Chapter 11. Madame Recamier: The Frozen-Hearted Angel
Chapter 12. Lady Hamilton: Patron Saint of Dime-Novel Heroines
Foreword
Find the Woman.
You will discover her in almost every generation, in almost every country, in almost every big city--the Super-Woman. She is not the typical adventuress; she is not a genius. The reason for her strange power is occult. When psycho-vivisectionists have thought they had segregated the cause--the formula--what you will--in one particular Super-Woman or group of Super-Women, straightway some new member of the clan has arisen who wields equal power with her notable sisters, but who has none of the traits that made them irresistible. And the seekers of formulas are again at sea.
What makes the Super-Woman? Is it beauty? Cleopatra and Rachel were homely. Is it daintiness? Marguerite de Valois washed her hands but twice a week. Is it wit? Pompadour and La Valliere were avowedly stupid in conversation. Is it youth? Diane de Poictiers and Ninon de l’Enclos were wildly adored at sixty. Is it the subtle quality of femininity? George Sand, who numbered her admirers by the score--poor Chopin in their foremost rank--was not only ugly, but disgustingly mannish. So was Semiramis.
The nameless charm is found almost as often in the masculine, “advanced” woman as in the ultrafeminine damsel.
Here are stories of Super-Women who conquered at will. Some of them smashed thrones; some were content with wholesale heart-smashing. Wherein lay their secret? Or, rather, their secrets? For seldom did two of them follow the same plan of campaign.
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
“Sunnybank,”
Pompton Lakes,
New Jersey
1916
CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter 1. Lola Montez: The Dancer Who Kicked Over a Throne
Chapter 2. Ninon de L’enclos: Premiere Siren of Two Centuries
Chapter 3. Peg Woffington: Irish Heart Conjurer
Chapter 4. Helen of Troy: Model for All the Sirens of the Centuries
Chapter 5. Madame Jumel: New York’s First Official Heart Breaker
Chapter 6. Adrienne Lecouvreur: The “Actress Heart Queen”
Chapter 7. Cleopatra: “The Serpent of Old Nile”
Chapter 8. George Sand: The Hopelessly Ugly Siren
Chapter 9. Madame Du Barry: The Seven-Million-Dollar Siren.
Chapter 10. “The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington”
Chapter 11. Madame Recamier: The Frozen-Hearted Angel
Chapter 12. Lady Hamilton: Patron Saint of Dime-Novel Heroines
Foreword
Find the Woman.
You will discover her in almost every generation, in almost every country, in almost every big city--the Super-Woman. She is not the typical adventuress; she is not a genius. The reason for her strange power is occult. When psycho-vivisectionists have thought they had segregated the cause--the formula--what you will--in one particular Super-Woman or group of Super-Women, straightway some new member of the clan has arisen who wields equal power with her notable sisters, but who has none of the traits that made them irresistible. And the seekers of formulas are again at sea.
What makes the Super-Woman? Is it beauty? Cleopatra and Rachel were homely. Is it daintiness? Marguerite de Valois washed her hands but twice a week. Is it wit? Pompadour and La Valliere were avowedly stupid in conversation. Is it youth? Diane de Poictiers and Ninon de l’Enclos were wildly adored at sixty. Is it the subtle quality of femininity? George Sand, who numbered her admirers by the score--poor Chopin in their foremost rank--was not only ugly, but disgustingly mannish. So was Semiramis.
The nameless charm is found almost as often in the masculine, “advanced” woman as in the ultrafeminine damsel.
Here are stories of Super-Women who conquered at will. Some of them smashed thrones; some were content with wholesale heart-smashing. Wherein lay their secret? Or, rather, their secrets? For seldom did two of them follow the same plan of campaign.
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
“Sunnybank,”
Pompton Lakes,
New Jersey
1916
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