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Show 140 Qoove everything ·else. versatile. Gates. nor so Of Miss Snow ... must say that she _5 neitber prolific, gifted nor so r"$ion as wae Mrs. Of the younger quartet, 1r$. Oates herself might have said much. She lmud have atta.cked. their work trom he_Tert. ltomen in her $0 She might th_iselves, !I{rs. by "tht world" enn hav:e 13rooks to as too close to the soil and teo tar expressed a she had. warned them editorial regret th.t the some lesser extent, pGJrhaps, had been ea,ptivated against $0 But she would have fre«luently. reeognied their talents. Only histor:y their Grea.t Woman Writ er ah$ t'lill have to b$ reveal wholn the Mormons th_selves will choose oan '" Whoever she is J she will bave to remAin eompared to oth$rs l'mo have own, for it is unwise to com.;pare the imprints of and customs and. traditions. background a. as orthodox; not unlike her d.iffering personalities Said Mrth Gates herself of $uh negligencEu The young person 'ffmo sharply criticbes the lQqal magadnes, the local writen. is not critic1dng individ.uals but conditions' What injustice, wba"t .folly, to c$mpare our p$riodieals with those of a. eivilizatiom two hundred years older than ours. It our writers are interior, so are our read&rs. • .2 [New England's] • Su.sa YO'Ul'lg Gat·" wri'ting sincerity and more important ta.tion, if tor ever XI, '72. not & wealth, "great writer," purpose which she than rhetoric alone. her sO'm. of these was was but she believed, rightly breughf., or to her wrongly, were She eared little for the "bubble repu tor critical smiles.. thiftge made her happy. T.nat her talents earned tor Bu.t for her, keeping the faith th6 most important thing. good writer because of this be- Who is to say whether she was a 2"Critieism Young'Women's of Crit.ies," JOlU"n.l (Aug., 19(0) |
