Horace Walpole/later Parliamentary Career - 1754-1768

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    An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Letters to absence can a voice impart,
    And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.
    Jessie Bernard (20th century)