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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 211 2 200 x 127 mm 114 pages |
MARY ROBINSON Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799 In addition to her work as poet, novelist and playwright Mary Robinson is credited with political writings, memoirs, and this passionate polemic. All this despite a long-drawn-out and painful illness that killed her at the age of forty-two, and years of mistreatment at the hands of the opposite sex. Here, writing under the pseudonym of Anne Frances Randall, she reveals herself as the most powerful feminist of her day, listing distinguished female intellectuals and going so far as to propose a university for women. £30 $55 Man swears to love and to cherish his wife, never to forsake her, in sickness or in health, in poverty or wealth, and to keep to her alone as long as they both shall live. Let me ask these law-makers, and these law-breakers, these sacriligious oath-takers, whether nine out of ten are not conscious of committing perjury at the moment when they make a vow so universally broken. |
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