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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... arms of thy noble , thy benevolent protector . " — Again she kissed the cheek on which a tear from her eyes had fallen while she spoke . It looked like a rose , sprinkled with the dews of morning . - Lord Francis now took the infant in ...
... arms ; and she seated herself on the steps of a rude cross , which the hermit had placed on a jutting part of the precipice . Here again she kissed and pressed her little companion to her bosom . " My Fanny , my own darling Fanny ...
... arms , sprang towards the edge of the acclivity . Lord Francis was terror - struck ; but he had still power to hold the arm of Morley , while Martha fell at his feet and in the agony of fear and tenderness conjured him to be merciful ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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