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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... living by her pen . Despite the enormous productivity of her last years and a number of favorable reviews , her " funeral was attended only by two literary friends ... whose friendship and benevolence had cheered her while living and ...
... living throne , The living throne his hands presum'd to rear , Its seat a simper , and its base a tear ; Cf. Polwhele's " The Epitaph on Bion from Moschus , " ll . 119–22 : “ But we , the great , the valiant , and the wise / When once ...
... living tombs , and restored to freedom : that very people , who had beheld in stupid silence the daily work of death , now melted in tears over the sufferers , and filled the air with acclamations at their release .... Upon the fall of ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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