Having taught herself Swedish during her sojourn in Germany, MH
formed a taste for Swedish and Danish literature, and a determination to introduce it into English. She tackled the contemporary writers Fredrika Bremer
and...
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Harriet Martineau
HM
wrote on topics related to women and supported a wide range of feminist causes throughout her career. She sent a letter conveying her warm and unrestricted sympathy
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press.
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to the participants in the Women's...
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Mary Augusta Ward
The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
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Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ
praises active religious sisterhoods but is opposed to nunneries, which she considers unhealthy in their insulation from the world.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant; and, The Communion of Labor. Hyperion Press.
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She likewise dismisses separatism (as exemplified in Fredrika Bremer
's all-female organisation for philanthropy)...