88. In this respect she resembled one of her favourite contemporaries, Mary Brunton, who would rather have “ glided through the world unknown” than been suspected of literary airs—to be shunned, as literary women are, by the more pretending of their own sex, and abhorred, as literary women are, by the more pretending of the other!

在这方面，她很像所喜欢的同时代人中的一位Mary Brunton一样被回避着，和许多女性作家更多的来掩饰其性别憎恶，和其它方面，Mary是宁愿在无名的世界中悄然而去，也不愿被怀疑是在卖弄文艺。