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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... feelings , " said Julia . " Or rather feelings of the right sort , " interrupted Martha . “ For though below luxury , they are above its fascinations . ” " I give away many hundreds every year , " said Mr. Bradford , " and all the world ...
... feeling mind , the dignity of self - approbation . She did not , like Julia , sigh or weep with ostentatious sensibility . Her feelings were not the effects of habit ; they were the energies of nature . As soon as they entered the farm ...
... feelings of their minds , at that trying moment , were wholly dissimilar : he was the voluntary aggressor - she the injured sufferer : he was perturbed , perplexed , and agitated — she was tran- quil , collected , and self - acquitted ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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