Harriet Guest (essay date summer 1995)
SOURCE: Guest, Harriet. “The Dream of a Common Language: Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Textual Practice 9, no. 2 (summer 1995): 303-23.
[In the following essay, Guest considers the similarities between the arguments in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hannah More's Structure, noting especially the representation of the corruption perceived to be endemic among middle-class women.]
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‘Have you read that wonderful book, The Rights of Woman’, wrote Anna Seward to Mr...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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