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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... learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters . The daughter of Lælius expressed in her conversation the eloquence of her father . There is an oration of the daughter of Quintus Hortensius , delivered before Triumvirs , which ...
... learned , Margaret of Valois queen of Navarre , merited of mankind . Joan , the daughter of this princess , had by Anthony of Bourbon , Henry the Fourth , king of France , founder of the family now reigning . " Bologna boasts several ...
... learned woman does not flatter his self - love , by confessing inferiority ; and a woman of real genius , eclipses him by her brilliancy . but Not many centuries past , the use of books was wholly unknown to the commonality of females ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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