The Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early-nineteenth-century English LiteratureFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978 - 190 páginas |
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... never mentioned sex or vice or who never discussed such subjects as politics or economics - were considered appropriate for women . Critic Maurice Quinlan writes that the main characters in Hannah More's novel , Coelebs in Search of a ...
... never mentioned sex or vice or who never discussed such subjects as politics or economics - were considered appropriate for women . Critic Maurice Quinlan writes that the main characters in Hannah More's novel , Coelebs in Search of a ...
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... never married - in an age when marriage was the only acceptable life for a woman is revealed in the follow- ing conversation . A friend of William Pitt's remarked of Hester's single state : " I suppose she waits till she can get a man ...
... never married - in an age when marriage was the only acceptable life for a woman is revealed in the follow- ing conversation . A friend of William Pitt's remarked of Hester's single state : " I suppose she waits till she can get a man ...
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... Never , " he says , " did anyone prepare for death with so much joy , such holy hope and humble confidences in God . " Actually , except for such platitudinous statements , Susan Gray fails as an argument for morality , for Susan is never ...
... Never , " he says , " did anyone prepare for death with so much joy , such holy hope and humble confidences in God . " Actually , except for such platitudinous statements , Susan Gray fails as an argument for morality , for Susan is never ...
Contenido
PREFACE | 9 |
Ladies of Labor and Ladies of Leisure | 21 |
To Scrub the Floor or Dance upon | 47 |
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