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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... returned home to supper ; and at two in the morning Mr. Bradford was carried to his chamber with his usual quantum of two bottles of madeira , and his cooling draught from the repository of Galen . I As Mrs. Bradford was rolling the ...
... returned . Mrs. Grimwood replied in the affirmative , at the same time adding : “ My master is talking with Miss Julia in her bedchamber . " Mrs. Morley was not more than woman ; her dressing - room was adjoining to Julia's apartment ...
... returning from a visit to little Fanny , she heard voices at a short distance before her . She discovered two persons ... returned home , and to her infinite surprise found lady Louisa alone . She had not been out of the house during the ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 33 |
A Letter to the Women of England | 39 |
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