Project Gutenberg 2009-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 131 Sanborn, Kate 1839 1917 Sanborn, Katherine Abbott The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Reading ease score: 78.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Bryan Ness, Jen Haines, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) "The Wit of Women" by Kate Sanborn is a collection of humorous writings and anecdotes dedicated to showcasing women's wit, likely crafted in the late 19th century. This engaging anthology sets out to challenge the prevailing notion that humor is predominantly a male domain; the author delightedly presents a series of clever remarks, puns, epigrams, and anecdotes by and about women. The book serves as a celebratory tribute, affirming that women have long exhibited a robust sense of humor and wit, often overlooked and underappreciated. At the start of the collection, Sanborn voices her aspiration to shine a light on women's humor, highlighting how historical perceptions have often dismissed it. She shares her personal motivation to assemble this volume, noting the difficulty of finding adequate material but excited by the abundance of humor she recalls from illustrious women throughout history. Through witty observations and a playful tone, she explains the melancholic tendencies of women poets contrasted with the crisp, sparkling humor she wishes to uncover, setting the stage for a richer exploration of women's contributions to the landscape of comedy and wit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Wit and humor PN Text Browsing: Humour Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature 459379 459037 2024-10-12T09:56:27.471700 2023-09-12T12:27:05.306807 text/html text/html 471178 2009-04-05T15:04:37 text/html 158652 2009-04-05T15:06:31 text/html application/zip 236775 2024-10-12T09:56:42.917089 application/epub+zip 238604 2024-10-12T09:56:32.317641 application/epub+zip 238603 2024-10-12T09:56:29.571674 application/epub+zip 461579 2024-10-12T09:56:48.425048 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 550478 2024-10-12T09:56:40.139116 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 533284 2022-09-13T09:31:00.338543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 352824 352584 2024-10-12T09:56:25.312663 2023-09-12T12:27:03.426786 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 352417 2009-04-05T14:56:31 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 144233 2009-04-05T14:56:31 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 352431 2009-04-05T14:56:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 144169 2009-04-05T14:56:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21533 2024-10-12T09:56:48.683034 application/rdf+xml 13186 2024-10-12T09:56:30.275655 image/jpeg 3489 2024-10-12T09:56:29.903641 image/jpeg 225076 2024-10-12T09:56:27.507646 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia