On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters - Ophelia, Portia, Desdemona, Juliet, Imogen, Rosalind, Beatrice, Hermione #247672

How often since, in life's hard struggles and trials, have these lines helped me! My books were indeed a strange medley, but they were all that were within my reach, and I found them satisfying. They filled my young heart and mind with what fascinated me most — the gorgeous, the wonderful, the grand, the heroic, the self denying, the self-devoting.