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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... published memoirs.3 Claiming narrative authority over a life that was in many respects far more scandalous than Wollstonecraft's , Robinson represents herself as a gothic heroine victimized by the duplicity of others and the ...
... published work found a poignant coda in the final months of her own life . In addition to her painful consciousness of neglect , Robinson also suffered from poverty , illness , and the mental exhaustion of trying to earn a living by her ...
... published under the pseudonym of Anne Frances Randall in March , 1799 , by the London firm of T.N. Longman and O ... published at Paris , Mrs. Robinson is induced to avow herself the Author of this Pamphlet . The first Edition was ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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