High-altitude solitude offers Victorian women a reprieve from human volatility.

Evidence

Uplifted above love and hate and storms of passion, calm amidst the eternal silences, fanned by zephyrs and bathed in living blue, peace rested for that one bright day on the Peak, as if it were some region Where falls not rain, or hail, or any snow, Or ever wind blows loudly. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 117

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘uplifted above love and hate and storms of passion’ directly answers the reader’s stated interest in her reactions to the miners’ volatile passions. — connects to: Intense high-altitude light can make solitude exhilarating instead of oppressive — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 222; Women lack the practice of sovereign solitude needed for creative transcendence. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1948; Frontier women with absent husbands lived alone in danger without fear — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 189

Broader Connections

• Women lack the practice of sovereign solitude needed for creative transcendence. #complicates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1948
• Frontier women with absent husbands lived alone in danger without fear #exemplifies (0.75) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 189
• Intense high-altitude light can make solitude exhilarating instead of oppressive #qualifies (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 222