Some early readers registered in their copies their dissatisfaction with the non-happy ending. The Library of Congress
copy bears a pencilled-in couplet addressed to readers, and the UCLA
copy a paragraph offering, in direct contradiction...
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Margaret Cavendish
Her address to her husband rejoices that he has never bidden her to stop writing and work (that is do needlework) instead. In this connection she quotes from Lord Denny
's attempt to silence Lady Mary Wroth
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Antonia Fraser
Fraser quotes here from Eliot
's tribute in Middlemarch to the silent influence of those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen.