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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... bosom , bathed with her tears . Mr. Morley desired his wife to return with him . " Not while my little darling is in this precarious state , " said she . " I am not destitute of feeling . " " Nor am I of discernment , " interrupted Mr ...
... bosom throbbed with all the agonies of sympathy . She looked at me without the smallest change of countenance . - Her eyes were full of tears . Her dark hair was fastened up with a band of laurel leaves ; she had a black knot of riband ...
... bosom , bestowed on her a thousand kisses . Mrs. Sedgley was absent ; she had wandered up the mountain to the cell of an hermit , in whose solitary abode she found both wisdom and philosophy . A little girl , the single inmate of Mrs ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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