Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | This polemic was heavily influenced by her reading of Euripides
' Medea during her adolescence, and by her later outlook on modern sex education, marriage, and motherhood. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 32 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Tollet | Her long feminist polemic Hypatia was written in response to an ongoing controversy between radical John Toland
and reactionary Thomas Lewis
(both equally at odds with Tollet's thinking). Toland praised Hypatia and excoriated the persecuting... |
Textual Features | Rachel Speght | The form of a dream or vision had been used in a fairly similar way in the Scots language by Elizabeth Melvill
in 1603. RS
's Dreame, in six-line stanzas, allegorizes a woman's longing... |
Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | While at finishing school she was inspired, by finding her classmates shallow, to write a feminist poem, Hypatia, expressing her opposition to marriage. |
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