Excerpt from Mothers and Children: Hitherto Unpublished Stories Of necessity, her career as an authoress paid penalty for this splendid giving; since to no woman is it granted that she achieve supreme success both as mother and as artist. Between these two dominating passions the soul wavers like a magnetic needle between two poles, vibrating now towards one, now towards the other - so that, in the case of the average woman-writer, neither destiny is fulfilled completely, and she dies as she has lived, a mediocre mother, a mediocre artist, to be as soon forgotten by the children she has neglected as by the readers she has failed to capture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.