'The humility of the female passed away with the Victorian era; a modern woman could no more write Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese than she could emulate Ellen in The Wide, Wide World. But the sisterhood of women has a far stronger claim upon her than it had upon her grandmothers; and she would do far more for her fellow-women than her great-aunts would ever have done. The proverbial spite of women against each other is a played-out bogey, as dead as many another doornail of the past. Nowadays women admire one another's beauty and talents quite as much as men admire them, and are quite as ready to do justice to and appreciate the same. Moreover, there has sprung up a spirit of camaraderie and loyalty among womankind which was almost unknown in past generations. Except in particular and exceptional instances, women have ceased to be rivals and have become friends.'
from Miss Fallowfield's Fortune by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Chapter XII)
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