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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... father , what would become of inheritance ? " " You mean if every father owned his own children , " said lady Pen . " Well , this may be mine for aught I know ; and why should not I adopt it ? It is not the first that has been at a loss ...
Mary Robinson Sharon M. Setzer. and impetuous . — I loved my father tenderly ; but I could not wear the trammels of severe restraint without repining — even in his presence . When I was eighteen years of age , my father proposed retiring ...
... father to prosecute . He is rich enough to make an exam- ple of those who want to trick me out of my guineas . Father has as much money as any man in the county , and father would as soon punish any body that affronts me as he would ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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