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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... Females : A Poem , Addressed to the Author of The Pursuits of Literature ( 1798 ) [ In a note to his satiric poem The Pursuits of Literature ( 1794–97 ) , T.J. Mathias observed , “ Our unsex'd female writers now instruct , or confuse ...
... female sex are equal to nobler labours than are usually undertaken by women . The profession of an actress is indeed most unsuitable to the sex in every point of view , whether it be considered with respect to the courage requisite to ...
... female sex , unsup- ported we must not say by prescription , but we are justified in saying by reason . Mrs. R. avows herself of the school of Wolstencroft [ sic ] ; and that is enough for all who have any regard to decency , order , or ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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