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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... rank ; nor in the studies of men of genius ; we hear of no national honours , no public marks of popular applause , no rank , no title , no liberal and splendid recompense bestowed on British literary women ! They must fly to foreign ...
... ranks of persons ; from the venerable libertine and ennobled shrew , to the juvenile arbitress of fashion , and the ... rank which they dishonoured , women of equivocal virtue considered themselves as Mrs. Morley's superi- ors ; while ...
... rank gave consequence to the object of his devo- tions , but whose necessity was the source of his convenient idolatry . Julia now resumed the name of her family , and the dash- ing Mrs. Bradford was an object of universal envy . Her ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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