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The historical religious ranking of women will be visibly readjusted in this chapter.
O fairest of creation, last and best ofall God’s works.
—John Milton, Paradise Lost
Woman! by Heav’ns the very Name’s a Crime, Enough to blast, and to debauch my Rhime. Sure Heav’n it self (intranc’t) like Adam lay, Or else some banish’d Fiend usurp’t the sway When Eve was form’d; and with her, usher’d in Plagues, Woes, and Death, and a new World of Sin. The fatal Rib was crooked and unev’n, from whence they have their Crab-like Nature giv’n; Averse to all the Laws of Man, and Heav’n. O Lucifer, thy Regions had been thin, Were’t not for Womans propagating Sin.
—Robert Gould, “Love Given O’re”
When Church and State combine, no protest under chains can set the captive free. To my mind, the matter calls not only for discussion, but for outspoken rebellion.
—E. C. Stanton, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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Notes
R. Polwhele, The Unsex’d Females: A Poem (London: Cadell and Davies, 1798), 35n.
E. Eger, C. Grant, C. O. Gallchoir, P. Warburton (eds.) Women, Writing and the Public Sphere 1700–1830, “The choice of Hercules: the polite arts and ‘female excellence’ in eighteenth-century London”, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 79.
A. Stott, Hannah More The First Victorian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 83.
See Sarah Scott’s The History of Sir George Ellison (London: A. Millar, 1766)
M. H. Abrams (ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1962), 2274
H. More, Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies (London: T. Cadell in the Strand, 1791), 5th ed., 13.
W. Lyman, A Virtuous Woman, the Bond of Domestic Union, and the Source of Domestic Happiness (London: printed by S. Green, 1802), 22.
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Ingham, A.M. (2010). Education, Sensibility, and Religion. In: Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109940_4
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