Working instead of speaking, or, I’m tidying up inside my home
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown’d;
But those same tongues that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.1
Facing the quandary of how to write a text from the woman’s position, it occurred to me to make a brief probe to reveal the points where “strictly” women’s responsibilities coalesce with the responsibility of artistic expression and to trace the interrelationship between the artificial of art and the natural of the world through the lens of the feminine—not as one between chaos and chaos, but between order and order, where the intelligent body of nature is reflected in the intelligibility of human nature.
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Participation in the "Friends '21" initiative and catalog.