Meanwhile the heroine, Maria Stanley, is unjustly spurned by her husband because he believes the lying insinuations of a jealous and wicked woman whom he has rejected, but the truth is revealed in time for...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
The heroine of this bildungsroman has much of her creator in her. She rejects the passive, escapist sensibility of her mother as vigorously as the brutal lewdness of her father. MW
condemns the effects of...
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28 November 1776: The otherwise unidentified Mrs H. Cartwright...
Women writers item
28 November 1776
The otherwise unidentified Mrs H. Cartwright
wrote the dedication to Elizabeth Montagu
of her first work, Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady, which appeared early the next year.
Cartwright, Mrs H. Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, 1777.
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Cartwright, Mrs H. Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, 1777.