It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

She was a heavy smoker and had a conservative's outlook on the issues of the day. Bibliography


Essay collections
Books and Men (1888)
Points of View (1891)
Essays in Miniature (1892)
Essays in Idleness (1893)
In the Dozy Hours (1894)
Varia (1897)
Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
Compromises (1904)
In Our Convent Days (1905)
A Happy Half Century (1908)
Americans and Others (1912)
The Cat (1912)
Counter Currents (1915)
Points of Friction (1920)
Under Dispute (1924)
To Think of Tea! (1931)
Times and Tendencies (1931)
In Pursuit of Laughter (1936)
Eight Decades (1937)


Biographical studies
J. William White M.

Agnes Repplier (April 1 1855 – November 15 1950) was an American essayist.