a life of visiting

'I Wish I Had a Field for My Energies...' Ta-Nehisi Coates Sep 7 2010, 1:00 PM ET Tweet More Email Print Julia Le Grand, who's made an appearance here before, speaks of watching Confederate men go off to war, while she is forced to man the homefront: I can't tell you what a life of suppression we lead. I feel it more because I know and feel all that is going on outside. I am like a pent-up volcano. I wish I had a field for my energies. I hate common life, a life of visiting, dressing and tattling, which seems to devolve on women,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and now that there is better work to do, real tragedy, real romance and history weaving every day, I suffer, suffer, leading the life I do. I came across this letter while reading Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers Of Invention. The book is stellar so far, and having read This Republic Of Suffering, I'm not surprised. Faust, like all of my favorite historians, has a way of focusing on a particular aspect of history without losing sight of the surrounding context. So whereas Republic was

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