Authors:

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.1128, e-artnow
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.