Critic Paula McDowell
notes how, in addition to conventional images of authorship as giving birth, the New Atalantis makes extraordinary use of the topos of childbirth, featuring shady midwives and abandoned bastards, and graphically depicted...
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Delarivier Manley
DM
writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...
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Joan Whitrow
She reminds the professors of religion that your poor Neighbours, many hundreds in City and Country, sits in their Houses with empty Bellies, both of Weavers and others, that knows not which way to shift...
