Dear Group members,


In the introduction to The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (edited
by
Charles Neider) there is a sentence as follows:


Despite his [Twain] frontier manliness he is too frilly, too juvenile,
too
surrounded by females to entirely please the national taste.

Can anyone explain to me why MT is “too surrounded by females to
entirely
please the national taste”? I don’t think his writing is only
for the
feminine taste.


Louisa Pan