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Mrs. Joy, who wouldn't seem like such a fool if she would not talk of things she knows noth ing about.
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Annie Nathan Meyer was an American author, antisuffragist, and a founder of Barnard College. She was born in New York City, the daughter of Robert and Annie Florance Nathan, members of the Sephardic community, which had figured prominently in the commercial and cultural life of New York since the Revolution.
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Robert Annys, poor priest , a tale of the great uprising
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Robert Annys, poor priest , a tale of the great uprising by Annie Nathan Meyer.
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P's and Q's: A Farce Comedy in One Act (Classic Reprint)
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Jessie. Well, I didn't think you'd neglect me so shamefully.
Harry. Neglect you? Good Lord! You accuse me of neglecting you when I think I couldn't have been more attentive.
Jessie. You call it attentive to go away for a whole week and never write me one single letter?
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Mrs. Root; there was not a babies' hospital, not a society for the.distribution of tracts among the heathen, not an association for the suppression of vice, not a sewing circle that did not bring forward its just and peculiar claims in the most eloquent terms. The world soon found out which church could boast the honor of being guardian to the soul and thirty millions of the renowned Mrs. Root, and there was not a church of that denomination (i am not going to commit myself) from Texas to Maine that did not assume the right to Propagate the divine gospel as it never could have been done before, To sweep sin from the face of the earth, and all by means of Mrs. Root's millions.
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Robert Annys: Poor Priest; A Tale of the Great Uprising
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Admirers of William Morris among whom I count all his readers will recognize the personal description of John Ball as taken from his A Dream of John Ball. They will also note that some parts of his sermon as well are from the same book. It seemed to me that certain bits of Morriss imaginative work were too fine and true to be spared in any attempt to set the blunt old poor priest before the modern reader. I have no fear of bearing off undeserved palms; for just as a few of the sayings of John Ball bear the marks of authenticity too clearly upon them to be mistaken for mine, so such as are taken from Morris are as clearly distinguished by the marks of supreme beauty and genius. In the course of many years of close reading, it is inevitable that there should have been woven into this book some of the ideas and prepossessions of certain Church historians. Although many other writers have been exceedingly helpful and suggestive, I want especially to acknowledge my indebtedness to Renan, Kingsley, Fisher, Baldwin Brown, Gosselin, Braun, Montalembert, Vincent, and Sheppard.
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Annie Nathan Meyer was an American writer, antisuffragist.
Background
Annie Nathan Meyer was born on February 19, 1867, in New York City. She was the daughter of Robert and Annie Florance Nathan, members of the Sephardic community, which had figured prominently in the commercial and cultural life of New York since the Revolution. Her childhood, however, was less sheltered than membership in this extended cousinage, which included Benjamin Cardozo and Emma Lazarus, implies. Her father's fascination with Wall Street was never matched by success; ill-advised speculations more than once brought him to the edge of bankruptcy. In 1875 he went to the Middle West, where for four years he directed the affairs of a small railroad. There his philandering drove his wife to despair, drugs, and an early death. The most lurid scenes of this marital tragedy were played out before their four children. Annie, when only nine, had thwarted one of her mother's attempts at suicide.
Education
Reading, for solace and pleasure, came naturally to Annie Nathan. Having exhausted her family's library and those of relatives by the age of fifteen, she decided to prepare herself for the collegiate course for women, an extension program inaugurated by Columbia College in 1883 to provide examinations and tutoring for women in lieu of admitting them to college lectures. In 1885 she was duly enrolled. A year later, as if to disprove her father's warning that academic pursuits would render her unmarriageable, she announced her engagement and discontinued her formal studies.
Career
On February 15, 1887, Meyer set about the creation of a women's college in New York City. It was the Columbia trustees' stated opposition to coeducation, rather than her own ideological preference for separate instruction, that prompted her to call for the establishment at Columbia of an "affiliated" women's institution, modeled after the Harvard "Annex" (later Radcliffe). She published an article on the subject in the Nation and circulated a petition among New Yorkers whose views and financial resources were likely to impress skeptical trustees. Among her signatories were the railroad tycoon Chauncey Depew, the editor Richard Watson Gilder, and fifteen of New York's leading ministers. Even before Meyer secured trustee approval and the necessary funds, she, on her husband's signature, leased quarters at Madison Avenue and Forty-fifth Street. In September 1889 Barnard College opened its doors. Meyer's decision to name the institution after Columbia's recently deceased president, F. A. P. Barnard, nicely illustrates her political acumen. Barnard, while an enthusiastic proponent of coeducation in the face of his trustees' opposition, had always dismissed compromise proposals such as the one Meyer championed. Accordingly, Barnard's widow was prepared to oppose the creation of an affiliated institution as contrary to her husband's wishes; but she could hardly do so when it was to be named for him. Meyer's interest in Barnard College never slackened. A member of its first board of trustees, she remained active in trustee affairs until her death. During those six decades she actively recruited among New York's society matrons, ever assuring them that their daughters might profitably spend four years in serious study at Barnard without risk to their health or marriageability. Her book Barnard Beginnings (1935) is an engaging chronicle of the college's early years and an important document in the history of American higher education.
Meyer wished to succeed as a writer. Encouraged early by Edith Wharton and supported throughout by her husband, she wrote two novels, twenty plays (three staged on Broadway), and a dozen short stories published in such magazines as Harper's, the Smart Set, and the Bookman. Her thematic preoccupations were the conflicting claims of career and marriage upon professional women. She also wrote and saw published countless letters to the editor, a literary subgenre in which she had few rivals and in which she enjoyed the critical acclaim that eluded her more extended efforts. Meyer's last book, an autobiography, was published three days after her death in New York City. The title was apt: It's Been Fun.
Achievements
Annie Nathan Meyer is most commonly known as a founder of Barnard College. She later became known as an opponent of woman suffrage (in direct conflict to her sister and suffragist Maud Nathan). At one time, Annie Nathan Meyer was associate editor of the Broadway Magazine. She edited Woman's Work in America (1891) and contributed a series of articles to the New York Evening Post.
With the successful launching of Barnard, Meyer turned her energies to the campaign against woman suffrage. She was an outspoken opponent and seized every opportunity to dispute the suffragist case short of accepting a challenge to debate Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst. Writing in the North American Review in 1904 on "Women's Assumption of Sex Superiority, " she attributed much of the movement's motivation to sex envy and sex hatred. Her opposition was not to women wanting to vote she was not a political reactionary and was very much a feminist but to the notion that their doing so would purify American politics. She was never persuaded that her skepticism had been unfounded.
Connections
On February 15, 1887, Annie Nathan married Alfred Meyer. Her husband, Dr. Alfred Meyer, a second cousin and thirteen years her senior, was a leading New York physician who later became an internationally renowned specialist in tubercular diseases. They had one daughter.
Father:
Robert Weeks Nathan
Mother:
Annie August Nathan
Sister:
Maud Nathan
October 20, 1862 – December 15, 1946
Was an American social worker, labor activist and suffragist for women's right to vote.
nephew:
Robert Gruntal Nathan
January 2, 1894 – May 25, 1985
Was an American novelist and poet.
