Money talks
“If civilisation is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society.”
Emmeline Pankhurst
The unnamed narrator in Herman Melville’s a smug, Wall Street lawyer comfortably nestled among the fortunes of wealthier, more powerful men, loves to repeat the name of John Jacob Astor – the ruthless New York landlord for whom (along with about ten others who qualified) the term millionaire was coined – for to the unnamed lawyer’s ears, Astor’s name “hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion”. But what exactly is it about Astor’s gold that the narrator
