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The Anti-Feminist Woman 1792–1850

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‘How I loathe and detest women,’ wrote Harold Nicolson in 1966.

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Sanders, V. (1996). The Anti-Feminist Woman 1792–1850. In: Eve’s Renegades. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24935-0_2

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