or,                       "Whoso cures the plague, Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech." "And witness: she who did this thing was born To do it; claims her license in her work." Aurora Leigh....

To the Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, Faithful Always To "Women And Work," and One of the Best Friends of The New-England Female Medical College, The Editor Gratefully Dedicates This Volume. "The men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, 'A woman's function plainly is ... to talk.'"              "What He doubts is, whether we can do the thing With decent grace we've not yet done at all. Now do it."              "Bring your statue: You have room." "None of us is mad enough to say We'll have a grove

It is due to myself to say, that the manner in which the Autobiography is subordinated to the general subject in the present volume, and also the manner in which it is veiled by the title, are concessions to the modesty of her who had the best right to decide in what fashion I should profit by her goodness, and are very far from being my own choice. Caroline H. Dall. 49. Bradford Street, Boston, Oct. 30, 1860. I went home full of the hope and inspiration of a new life. Dear Mary, you can hardly