A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural DaughterBroadview Press, 2003 M01 2 - 336 páginas Mary Robinson’s A Letter to the Women of England (1799) is a radical response to the rampant anti-feminist sentiment of the late 1790s. In this work, Robinson encourages her female contemporaries to throw off the “glittering shackles” of custom and to claim their rightful places as the social and intellectual equals of men. Separately published in the same year, Robinson’s novel The Natural Daughter follows the story of Martha Morley, who defies her husband’s authority, adopts a found infant, is barred from her husband’s estate and is driven to seek work as an actress and author. The novel implicitly links and critiques domestic tyrants in England and Jacobin tyrants in France. This edition also includes: other writings by Mary Robinson (tributes, and an excerpt from The Progress of Liberty); writings by contemporaries on women, society, and revolution; and contemporary reviews of both works. |
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... affection [ M.R's note ] . Pringle was convicted of forgery and executed in 1787 after she refused to accept a pardon offered on the condition that she identify her accomplice / lover . Her story is related in William Cole's Exalted ...
... affections . Every day augmented her power over his mind , and every hour convinced her that he was the most amiable ... affection could anticipate , and her sweetness of temper repaid the assiduities which were hourly fostering them to ...
... affection for lord Francis returned . They began to master the heroic sentiment which friendship for Mrs. Sedgley had prompted : she recollected the declining state of Mr. Morley's health - the more than probable chance of her being the ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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