In the extended title MA
calls herself moderate, dutiful, and loyal, ironically insisting that she is not Mr. L—y, or any other Furious Jacobite whether Clergyman or Layman.
Astell, Mary. The First English Feminist. Editor Hill, Bridget, St Martin’s Press, 1986.
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She thus flags her opposition both...
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George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE
's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
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Nadine Gordimer
NG
issued a collected volume of short stories, Friday's Footprint, whose title emblematises, through allusion to Defoe
's Robinson Crusoe, a key moment in colonial contact between different races.
In fact, the footprint...
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Eliza Haywood
A Spy upon the Conjuror (19 March 1724; three more issues followed) is the first of EH
's several pamphlets on the deaf-mute fortune-teller Duncan Campbell
. It was advertised more than a year before...
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Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth
's children's...
