 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1861 - 326 pages
...saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1861 - 318 pages
...saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my Free at Laft. 303 children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances... | |
 | William L. Andrews - 1988 - 372 pages
...profounder quest of her life, the quest for an independent home, Jacobs 's story ends with a dream deferred. "I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own." Three times repeated, "my own" expresses... | |
 | Hazel V. Carby Professor of English and Afro-American Studies Yale University - 1987 - 234 pages
...woman's sphere did not exist for her, and this factor ensured her dependence on a mistress. She stated, "I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than my own" (207). The ideological definition of the womanhood... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1988 - 348 pages
...saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1990 - 354 pages
...saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own. I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humhle. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders eircumstances... | |
 | G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 298 pages
...usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free!... The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep... | |
 | Lois Josephs Fowler - 1990 - 308 pages
...saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep... | |
 | Nancy K. Miller - 1991 - 188 pages
...narrator — ends her story still questing for a "home": "The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own. I still long for a hearthstone of my own." Jacobs's text is constructed, we might say, in the gaps produced by that difference: the irreducible... | |
 | Claudia Tate - 1992 - 318 pages
...way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! . . . The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own....long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. HARRIET A. JACOBS, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) "O, aunt Jane—, I have at last found... | |
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The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own. I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. 
