...make this confession ; but so many women are fond of government, I suppose, because they are not fît for it. To be unstable and capricious, I really think,...used horridly to provoke some of my female friends, maîtresses femmes, by it, especially such heroic spirits as poor Mrs. Walsingham. I believe they used...

...liberty as I can make a good use of, now I am an old maid; and when I was a young one, I had, I daresay, more than was good for me. If I were still young,...since I have been capable of observation, and I used horribly to provoke some of my female friends, mattresses femmes, by it, especially such heroic spirits...

...is something fantastic and absurd in the very title. How many ways there are of being ridiculous 1 I am sure I have as much liberty as I can make a good...used horridly to provoke some of my female friends — waitresses femmes — by it, especially such heroic spirits as poor Mrs. Walsingham. Men, on the...

...now I am an old maid ; and when I was a young one I had, I daresay, more than was good for me .... To be unstable and capricious, I really think, is...to subordination for its good behaviour as woman." To this Horace Walpole replies : — "It is better to thank Providence for the tranquillity and happiness...

...submissive was her subjection. Hannah More, who refused to open Mary Wollstonecraft's book, said: " There is perhaps no animal so much indebted to subordination for its good behaviour as woman;" 2 while Horace Walpole talked about " that hyena in petticoats." Half a century after the publication...

...submissive was her subjection. Hannah More, who refused to open Mary Wollstonecraft's book, said : " There is perhaps no animal so much indebted to subordination for its good behaviour as woman ; " 2 while Horace Walpole talked about " that hyena in petticoats." Half a century after the publication...

...submissive was her subjection. Hannah More, who refused to open Mary Wollstonecraft's book, said : " There is perhaps no animal so much indebted to subordination for its good behaviour as woman;"4 while Horace Walpole talked about " that hyena in petticoats." Half a century after the publication...

...of the women of her day. I allude to her remark, " To be unstable and capricious is, I really think, but too characteristic of our sex ; and there is perhaps...to subordination for its good behaviour as woman." We must take it, however, with a grain of salt ; we must remember that the women of Hannah More's day...

...woman's gradual self-discovery and selfassertion. Here is Hannah More, writing to Horace Walpole in 1793: I have been much pestered to read the "Rights of Women,"...to subordination for its good behaviour, as woman. (Roberts 2: 371) Like Lady Mary writing to Lady Bute, More makes limited narrative claims. The story...

...because they are not fit for it. To be unstable and capticious, I really think, is hut too charactenstic of our sex; and there is perhaps no animal so much...to subordination for its good behaviour, as woman. iRoberts 2: 371) Like Lady Mary writing to Lady Bute, More makes limited narrative claims. The story...