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a your sex , that young women are seldom permitted to make their own choice ; their friends ' care and experience are ... As late as 1706 Mary Astell still laments ; “ A woman , indeed , can't properly be said to choose ; all that is ...
a your sex , that young women are seldom permitted to make their own choice ; their friends ' care and experience are ... As late as 1706 Mary Astell still laments ; “ A woman , indeed , can't properly be said to choose ; all that is ...
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Is Helena's turning to women at the end of the play unusual in her immediate social context ? Or does it signal some kind of change in sensibility that was actually occurring at the time ? Although there has not yet been much ...
Is Helena's turning to women at the end of the play unusual in her immediate social context ? Or does it signal some kind of change in sensibility that was actually occurring at the time ? Although there has not yet been much ...
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Rethe Warnicke , Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation ( Westport , Conn . ... Carroll Camden in The Elizabethan Woman ( New York : Elsevier Press , 1952 ) quotes from many such treatises which lead us to believe that women ...
Rethe Warnicke , Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation ( Westport , Conn . ... Carroll Camden in The Elizabethan Woman ( New York : Elsevier Press , 1952 ) quotes from many such treatises which lead us to believe that women ...
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