"Defectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mind" written when she was but seventeen, and of which she afterward said that it had "a pertness and a pedantry which did not even then belong to the character of the author," and which she regretted, she went on to say, "even more than the literary defectiveness." This volume was presented by her to a member of the Somerset family whose name is inscribed over that of ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting |
