text:  Respecting the leading conception of her drama Miss Barrett writes thus:--"My subject was the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness; with a peculiar reference to Eve's allotted grief which considering that self-sacrifice belonging to her womanhood and the consciousness of originating the Fall to her offence--appeared to me imperfectly apprehended hitherto and more expressible by a woman than a man